Chronicles the work of George Templeton Strong, an American composer and painter.

The music of the nineteenth century was - and still is - thought of as a 'romantic' art, whereas the main current of the literature and fine arts of the age was

Edward MacDowell was born on the eve of the Civil War into a Quaker family in lower Manhattan, where music was a forbidden pleasure. With the help of Latin-Amer

In July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavallée performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts. Over the c

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and tec