Strong on Music The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong 1836-1849

InStrong on MusicVera Brodsky Lawrence uses the diaries of lawyer and music lover George Templeton Strong as a jumping-off point from which to explore every aspect of New York City's musical life in the mid-nineteenth century. Formerly a concert pianist, Vera Brodsky Lawrence spent the last third of her life as a historian of American music (she died in 1996). She was editor ofThe Piano Works of Louis Moreau GottschalkandThe Complete Works of Scott Joplin. On Volume 1: "A marvelous book. There is nothing like it in the literature of American music."Harold C. Schonberg,New York Times Book Review On Volume 2: "A monumental achievement."Victor Fell Yellin,Opera QuarterlyLawrence, Vera B. is the author of 'Strong on Music The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong 1836-1849', published 1995 under ISBN 9780226470092 and ISBN 0226470091.