Touring the antebellum South with an English opera company Anton Reiff's riverboat travel journal
"The diary of Anton Reiff, Jr. (1840-1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer insights into the difficulties faced by a traveling opera company in nineteenth-century America. Reiff, who went on to have a long and successful musical career, had been working at the Bowery Theatr...
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| 520 | 3 | |a Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff's diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company aboard a nineteenth-century steamboat as it made its way down the Mississippi River. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theatre in the river towns, including that in New Orleans, where he saw both the French opera and an evening's worth of entertainment at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focused most of his observations on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on the river towns and their residents, including those enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for apart from the typical dangers of a river journey, the winter of 1855-1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had many difficulties with river ice. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Several historians have used Reiff's journal as source material, but until now the entire text has only been available in its original state in the diary, which is archived in LSU's special collections in Hill Memorial Library. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, high-brow entertainment, and the people and places along the Mississippi River"-- | |
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| spelling | Reiff, Anthony Jr. 1830-1916 Verfasser (DE-588)1228290342 aut Touring the antebellum South with an English opera company Anton Reiff's riverboat travel journal edited, with an introduction, by Michael Burden Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2020] xx, 191 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 Karte txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Hill Collection : holdings of the LSU Libraries Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction -- The Pyne and Harrison Troupe -- Scenes in the back woods "The diary of Anton Reiff, Jr. (1840-1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer insights into the difficulties faced by a traveling opera company in nineteenth-century America. Reiff, who went on to have a long and successful musical career, had been working at the Bowery Theatre in New York before being hired to serve as musical director and conductor by the Pyne & Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by the English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, the tenor William Harrison. The grueling tour began in November 1855 in Boston and then proceeded to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati where, after a three-week engagement, the company boarded a paddle steamer bound for New Orleans. It was at that point that Reiff started to keep his diary. Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff's diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company aboard a nineteenth-century steamboat as it made its way down the Mississippi River. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theatre in the river towns, including that in New Orleans, where he saw both the French opera and an evening's worth of entertainment at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focused most of his observations on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on the river towns and their residents, including those enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for apart from the typical dangers of a river journey, the winter of 1855-1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had many difficulties with river ice. Several historians have used Reiff's journal as source material, but until now the entire text has only been available in its original state in the diary, which is archived in LSU's special collections in Hill Memorial Library. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, high-brow entertainment, and the people and places along the Mississippi River"-- Reiff, Anthony Jr. 1830-1916 (DE-588)1228290342 gnd rswk-swf Pyne-Harrison Opera Company (DE-588)1227939698 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1856 gnd rswk-swf Oper (DE-588)4043582-9 gnd rswk-swf Aufführung (DE-588)4143388-9 gnd rswk-swf Konzertreise (DE-588)4192022-3 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Reiff, Anthony / Jr. / 1830?-1916 / Diaries Reiff, Anthony / Jr. / 1830?-1916 / Travel / Southern States Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company / Travel / Southern States Opera companies / Southern States / History / 19th century Opera companies / England / History / 19th century River boats / Mississippi River / History / 19th century Reiff, Anthony / Jr. / 1830?-1916 Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company Opera companies River boats Travel England Mississippi River Southern States 1800-1899 Diaries History (DE-588)4058900-6 Tagebuch gnd-content (DE-588)4135952-5 Quelle gnd-content (DE-588)4136710-8 Kommentar gnd-content USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Pyne-Harrison Opera Company (DE-588)1227939698 b Oper (DE-588)4043582-9 s Aufführung (DE-588)4143388-9 s Konzertreise (DE-588)4192022-3 s Geschichte 1856 z DE-188 Reiff, Anthony Jr. 1830-1916 (DE-588)1228290342 p DE-604 Burden, Michael 1960- (DE-588)138758999 edt Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF 978-0-8071-7445-6 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB 978-0-8071-7446-3 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032396173&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title_full | Touring the antebellum South with an English opera company Anton Reiff's riverboat travel journal edited, with an introduction, by Michael Burden |
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