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Billings in the Revolutionary Era Music Panoply
A vivid survey of early American music highlighting William Billings as a central, eccentric composer of Chester and America. The piece notes his practical limits yet enduring influence, alongside references to Gottschalk and Mozart in Virginian reverie, with praise from William Schuman and ties to Revolutionary history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Billings
Louis Gottechalke
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Jefferson
New England
Wiliam Billings
Billings
Chester
White Plains
Lexington and Concord
Trenton
Valley Forge
JC Penney
America
William Schuman
Pulitzer
Lincoln Center
Juilliard
Schuman
Alice Early