Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918

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“…The main opera houses in America were in New Orleans, founded in 1790, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, founded in 1883, but the popular method of consuming opera at the time was through the "touring troupes," often managed by 9 Ibid., 316. 10 For more general information on the rise and fall of American symphony orchestras and European music in the United States throughout the nineteenth century, see European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1840-1900(Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006, edited by John Graziano; John H. Mueller's The American Symphony Orchestra: A Social History of Musical Taste (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1951); Music and Culture in America, 1861-1918(New York: Garland, 1998, edited by Michael Saffle;and Henry Swoboda's The American Symphony Orchestra (New York: Basic Books, 1967). 11 For more specific symphony orchestra accounts of composers and conductors in the early twentieth century, see Hugo Leichtentritt's Serge Koussevitsky: The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New American Music (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946) and Mary H. Wagner's Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Tour America (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006).…”