Music in Gotham

Between 2004 and 2008, Music in Gotham sponsored four conferences; expanded versions of the papers from our first conference, which I edited, were published as European Music and Musicians in New York City, 1850-1900 (University of Rochester Press, 2006). Most importantly, the database, now limited to chronicling Manhattan, was a model that would be used to document musical events in multiple urban centers across the country, and perhaps even in Europe, leading to a wider contextual understanding of how music, musicians, and audiences were part of the cultural fabric of Western music. -