Lieder in America

Heather Platt is Sursa Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts and professor of music at Ball State University. She is the author of Johannes Brahms: A Research and Information Guide second edition, and coeditor of Expressive Interactions in Brahms: Essays in Analysis and Meaning.

• Acknowledgments Notes Regarding Titles of Compositions and SourcesIntroduction Introducing a “Higher Class” of Song to American Audiences Song Recitals and Song Recital Series The Henschels’ Polyglot “Vocal Recitals” Max Heinrich’s “Classical Song Recitals” Max Heinrich’s Expanding Stylistic and Geographic Vistas Villa Whitney White and Women’s Music Clubs David Bispham and the Heyday of Song Recitals Epilogue: The End of an Era Appendix: Milestones in the Development of Song RecitalsNotesBibliographyIndex

“A little-known aspect of the late nineteenth-century expansion of art music culture in the United States is the popularity of German lieder recitals. Heather Platt masterfully weaves a profound knowledge of the genre’s roots in Europe with an exhaustive survey of US digital resources to tell this important story.”--E. Douglas Bomberger, author of Making Music American: 1917 and the Transformation of Culture