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The history of Florida State University's Marching Chiefs is
chronicled, from early efforts to form a band before the 1939
establishment of Florida State College for Women, to the Chiefs'
attainment of ""world renowned"" status. The band's leaders, shows
and music are discussed, along with the origins of some of their
venerable traditions, game-day rituals and school songs, including
the ""Alma Mater,"" the "Fight Song," and the ""Hymn to the Garnet
and Gold."" The story of the Chiefs takes in the growth of FSU and
its School of Music, the rise of ""Big Football"" in Tallahassee
and the transformations on campus and in American society that
affected them.
Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852-1918 is a
history of the city's classical-music culture in the period that
begins a decade before the American Civil War and extends to the
close of the Great War. The book provides insights into the
intellectual foundation of Boston's musical development as revealed
in the writings of its significant critics and thinkers, including
John Sullivan Dwight, John Knowles Paine, William Foster Apthorp,
and others. It also examines the influence of outsiders-Patrick
Gilmore, Theodore Thomas, Richard Wagner, New York's Metropolitan
Opera, and Richard Strauss-on Boston's performance and composition
scene while also considering events that affected music in Boston,
such as the building of the Music Hall, the acquisition of its
Great Organ, the National Peace Jubilee, Chicago's Columbian
Exposition, Boston's first Wagner Festival, and the rise and fall
of the Boston Opera Company. Music in Boston also accounts for the
ascent of the Second New England School of composers-John Knowles
Paine, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach and
others-and discusses their key compositions and legacy. Finally,
the book explores Boston itself: its transformations via
immigration, its ever-changing topography, and its economy.
George Whitefield Chadwick was one of the most prolific composers
that the United States ever produced. During a career that spanned
over 50 years, he was considered the Dean of American Composers
from the 1880s until after World War I. He composed in nearly every
genre, including opera/stage works (seven), orchestral music (17
major works), songs (over 100), and dozens of choral and chamber
works. Chadwick benefited from numerous performances of his
music-particularly by the Boston Symphony Orchestra-and many of his
works were published during his lifetime. He was also considered
one of the foremost teachers of his era. He began teaching
composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, and became
its Dean in 1897, a post he held for more than 30 years. Chadwick
and his music are currently enjoying a revival.
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