- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Toward a History of American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
- Part I Ubiquity & Diversity
- [I.1] Building the American Symphony Orchestra
- [I.2] Modeling Music
- [1.3] American Orchestras and Their Unions in the Nineteenth Century
- Part II The Orchestra & the American City
- [II.1] Invisible Instruments
- [II.2] Beethoven and Beer
- [II.3] Performances to “permanence”
- [II.4] Critic and Conductor in 1860s Chicago
- [II.5] Amateur and Professional, Permanent and Transient
- Part III Conductors, Promoters, Patrons
- [III.1] Bernard Ullman and the Business of Orchestras in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
- [III.2] John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra
- [III.3] The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877–78
- [III.4] Gender and the Germanians
- Part IV America & Europe
- [IV. 1] “A Concentration of Talent on Our Musical Horizon”
- [IV.2] Ureli Corelli Hill
- Part V Orchestraf Repertory
- [v.1] Orchestral Programs in Boston, 1841–55, in European Perspective
- [V.2] Theodore Thomas and the Cultivation of American Music
- [V.3] Thinking about Serious Music in New York, 1842–82
- Aflerword: Coming of Age
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
Gender and the Germanians
Gender and the Germanians
“Art-Loving Ladies” in Nineteenth-Century Concert Life
- Chapter:
- (p.289) [III.4] Gender and the Germanians
- Source:
- American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
- Author(s):
Nancy Newman
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Adrienne Fried Block wrote an innovative essay titled “Matinee Mania, or The Regendering of Nineteenth-Century Audiences in New York City,” in which she proposed that a continuum of female activity was the mechanism through which American women became incorporated into public musical life. Germanians knew that women were important to their corporate, commercial, and musical success. Ann Elizabeth's brief comments indicated a great deal about what the Germania's performances meant to women. Henriette Sontag and Jenny Lind generated a bridge to their listeners through the diversity of their programs. The variety of roles played by Caroline Bandt represented the continuum of female participation in mid-nineteenth-century musical life. Generally, the Germania Musical Society welcomed women's participation on the stage, in the audience, playing their compositions, selling subscriptions, and throwing rosebuds.
Keywords: Adrienne Fried Block, American women, Germanians, Ann Elizabeth, Henriette Sontag, Jenny Lind, Caroline Bandt, Germania Musical Society
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Toward a History of American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
- Part I Ubiquity & Diversity
- [I.1] Building the American Symphony Orchestra
- [I.2] Modeling Music
- [1.3] American Orchestras and Their Unions in the Nineteenth Century
- Part II The Orchestra & the American City
- [II.1] Invisible Instruments
- [II.2] Beethoven and Beer
- [II.3] Performances to “permanence”
- [II.4] Critic and Conductor in 1860s Chicago
- [II.5] Amateur and Professional, Permanent and Transient
- Part III Conductors, Promoters, Patrons
- [III.1] Bernard Ullman and the Business of Orchestras in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York
- [III.2] John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra
- [III.3] The Leopold Damrosch Orchestra, 1877–78
- [III.4] Gender and the Germanians
- Part IV America & Europe
- [IV. 1] “A Concentration of Talent on Our Musical Horizon”
- [IV.2] Ureli Corelli Hill
- Part V Orchestraf Repertory
- [v.1] Orchestral Programs in Boston, 1841–55, in European Perspective
- [V.2] Theodore Thomas and the Cultivation of American Music
- [V.3] Thinking about Serious Music in New York, 1842–82
- Aflerword: Coming of Age
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
