The program book (which Richard Dyer called "exemplary" in the Boston
Globe) is 28 pages long. The contents are as follows:
--"Reclaiming the Past - Musical Boston Reconsidered" by Joseph Horowitz
--"Dvorak and Boston" by Joseph Horowitz
--"As the Twig Is Bent, So Grows the Tree: Henry Lee Higginson and George
Chadwick" by Steven Ledbetter
--"From Hiawatha to Wa-Wan: Musical Boston and the Uses of Native
American Lore" by Michael Pisani.
Both the book and the festival (of which I was Director) argued against
dismissive stereotypes of the "Gilded Age" and "genteel tradition." We
took issue with the view that Boston's turn-of-the-century composers were
Germanic clones, with characterizations of Higginson (by Lawrence Levine,
among others) as an elitist cultural plutocrat, etc. Five areas of
inquiry were stressed:
--The Boston response to Dvorak (less liberal than New York's)
--The Case of George Chadwick (our first notable nationalist composer, it
was argued)
--The Case of Amy Beach (what was the impact of Boston on her creative
personality?)
--Higginson and the Boston Symphony (not just a Brahmin stronghold)
--Arthur Farwell and the Indianists (based in Boston, and more impressive
than we tend to assume)
Check for three dollars should be made out to the New England
Conservatory and mailed to: Lizette Reyes, President's Office, New
England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston, Ma. 02115
Joseph Horowitz
New England Conservatory
horowitz4@juno.com
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