The classical music tradition in the United States is borrowed from Europe. But few could have anticipated how European it ...

American classical music turned away from Black music and other folk traditions to its lasting detriment, according to this knotty cultural history from music critic and historian Horowitz (Artists in ...

Early American composers could have shaken off their European sound and mined the rich trove of African American music. They didn't. And one... When the first enslaved Africans landed on American ...

bk. 1. "Queen of the arts" : birth and growth. Introduction : a tale of two cities (1893) -- pt. 1. Boston and the cult of Beethoven ; John Sullivan Dwight, Theodore Thomas, and the slaying of the ...