American orchestras in the nineteenth century. edited by John Spitzer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-477) and index.

Toward a history of American orchestras in the nineteenth century / Deane L. Root -- Ubiquity and diversity -- The ubiquity and diversity of nineteenth-century American orchestras / John Spitzer -- Building the American symphony orchestra: the nineteenth-century roots of a twenty-first-century musical institution / Mark Clague -- Modeling music : early organizational structures of American women's orchestras / Anna-Lise P. Santella -- American orchestras and their unions in the nineteenth century / John Spitzer -- The orchestra and the American city -- Orchestras : local versus national / John Spitzer -- Invisible instruments : theater orchestras in New York, 1850-1900 / John Graziano -- Beethoven and beer : orchestral music in German beer gardens in nineteenth-century New York city / John Koegel and Jonas Westover -- Performances to "permanence" : orchestra building in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati / Karen Ahlquist -- Critic and conductor in 1860s Chicago : George P. Upton, Hans Balatka, and cultural capitalism / James Deaville -- Amateur and professional, permanent and transient: orchestras in the District of Columbia 1877-1905 / Patrick Warfield -- Conductors, promoters, patrons -- Marketing the American orchestra / John Spitzer -- Bernard Ullman and the business of orchestras in mid-nineteenth-century New York / Bethany S. Goldberg -- John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra : a help or a hindrance? / Mary Wallace Davidson -- The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877-78 : background, instrumentation, programming and critical reception -- Gender and the germanians : "art-loving ladies" in nineteenth-century concert life / Nancy Newman -- America and Europe -- Orchestras : American and European / John Spitzer -- "A concentration of talent on our musical horizon" : the 1853-54 American tour by Jullien's extraordinary orchestra / Katherine K. Preston -- Ureli Corelli Hill : his European travels and the creation of the New York Philharmonic / Barbara Haws -- Orchestral repertory -- Orchestral repertory : highbrow and lowbrow / John Spitzer -- Orchestral programs in Boston, 1842-55, in European perspective / William Weber -- Theodore Thomas and the cultivation of American music / Brenda Nelson-Strauss -- Thinking about serious music in New York, 1842-82 / Adrienne Fried Block -- Afterword: coming of age / Ronald G. Walters.