Sixty Years of California Song

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Author

Alverson, Margaret Blake, 1836-1923

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Produced by David Newman, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

ML: Music: Literature of music

Subject

Music -- California -- History and criticism

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Text

eBook-No.

19528

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19528

Release Date

October 12, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SIXTY YEARS OF CALIFORNIA SONG
2. 2.Margaret Blake-Alverson
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.THE TEXT
5. 5.THE ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.PORTRAITS OF PUPILS
7. 7.CHAPTER ONE — ANTECEDENTS AND CHILDHOOD
8. 8.CHAPTER TWO — OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA VIA THE ISTHMUS, AND EARLY DAYS THERE. FIRST CHURCH CHOIR IN STOCKTON
9. 9.CHAPTER THREE — STOCKTON IN THE FIFTIES. BENICIA SEMINARY. GENESIS OF MILLS COLLEGE. DISTINGUISHED PIONEERS. MARRIAGE
10. 10.CHAPTER FOUR — HOW I MADE THE FIRST BEAR FLAG IN CALIFORNIA
11. 11.CHAPTER FIVE — BOSTON. DEDHAM CHOIR, 1858. THE CIVIL WAR. FAMOUS MUSICIANS. RETURN TO CALIFORNIA. SANTA CRUZ.
12. 12.CHAPTER SIX — SANTA CRUZ IN THE SIXTIES. WHY I BECAME A DRESSMAKER. OPERA. MUSIC IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SEVENTIES
13. 13.CHAPTER SEVEN — LADY OF LYONS GIVEN AT SANTA CRUZ. FLAG-RAISING AT GILROY HOT SPRINGS. VISALIA CONCERTS — GILROY HOT SPRINGS FLAG RAISING, JULY 18, 1872. — VISALIA CONCERTS.
14. 14.CHAPTER EIGHT — ON THE ROAD WITH DICK KOHLER, MR. VIVIAN, WALTER CAMPBELL, MR. WAND AND CHARLES ATKINS
15. 15.CHAPTER NINE — EARLY MUSIC AND MUSIC HOUSES. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS. OLD-TIME SINGERS
16. 16.CHAPTER TEN — AS A CHURCH CHOIR SINGER. BARNABEE, ZERRAHN, PATTI, JENNY LIND, JOE MAGUIRE, SAM MAYER, HARRY GATES
17. 17.CHAPTER ELEVEN — GOLDEN JUBILEE OF SONG SERVICE, JUNE 12, 1896
18. 18.CHAPTER TWELVE — CAMILLA URSO'S FESTIVAL, 1873. MADAME ANNA BISHOP. THE LORING CLUB. ALFRED WILKIE, FRANK GILDER, D.P. HUGHES
19. 19.CHAPTER THIRTEEN — ROMAN CATHOLIC, EPISCOPAL, AND JEWISH MUSIC. J.H. DOHRMANN. THE BIANCHI'S
20. 20.CHAPTER FOURTEEN — GREAT MUSICAL FESTIVAL IN AID OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY, 1878. AT GILROY SPRINGS.
21. 21.CHAPTER FIFTEEN — AUTHORS' CARNIVAL, 1880, PRESIDENT HAYES AND GENERAL SHERMAN PRESENT
22. 22.CHAPTER SIXTEEN — VACATION EPISODES AT DEER PARK, JULY 4, 1893
23. 23.CHAPTER SEVENTEEN — IN OAKLAND. SAD ACCIDENT. BRUSH AND EASEL. KIND FRIENDS.
24. 24.CHAPTER EIGHTEEN — PARTY AT DR. J.M. SHANNON'S HOME IN 1907
25. 25.CHAPTER NINETEEN — LEE TUNG FOO
26. 26.CHAPTER TWENTY — WHAT I KNOW OF THE VOICE AND OF TEACHING
27. 27.CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE — TREMOLO
28. 28.CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO — MORE ABOUT THE VOICE
29. 29.CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE — POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING. WORK AS A PATRIOT. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. FLAG-RAISING AT MONTEREY
30. 30.CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR — REPERTOIRE AND OTHER DATA. MUSICIANS AND SINGERS OF THE LAST CENTURY — HALLS AND THEATERS WHERE I HAVE SUNG — CHURCHES WHERE I HAVE SUNG — ORATORIOS AND CANTATAS I HAVE SUNG IN BOSTON, SAN FRANCISCO, SACRAMENTO, STOCKTON, OAKLAND, SAN BERNARDINO AND SANTA CRUZ — MASSES I HAVE SUNG IN THE DIFFERENT CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN CALIFORNIA — MASSES SUNG IN 1869 — MASSES SUNG AT ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, MISSION STREET, 1870 — SOLEMN HIGH MASS FOR POPE PIUS IX, 1880 — MASSES SUNG IN ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, 1873 AND 1875 — MASSES SUNG IN ST. MARY'S CHURCH — MASS SUNG IN ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH — MASS SUNG IN THE FRENCH CHURCH — MASSES SUNG IN 1874 — GRAND HIGH MASS AT ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, 1881 — 1888 — 1889 — EARLY MUSICIANS OF CALIFORNIA — FIRST CHOIR OF SINGERS, 1852 — 1853 — EMINENT SINGERS, 1854 — MUSICIANS WHO CAME LATER IN THE FIFTIES — WOMEN PIANISTS — WOMEN SINGERS OF EARLY YEARS, 60'S AND 70'S — 1896 — MEN SINGERS IN EARLY DAYS — CALIFORNIA COMPOSERS
31. 31.CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE — EARLY CALIFORNIA REMINISCENCES OF MUSICIANS AND SINGERS — RUDOLPH HEROLD — J.H. DOHRMANN — RICHARD CONDY — FREDERICK KRAUS — SARAH P. WATKINS-LITTLE — WALTER CHAUNCY CAMPBELL — FREDERICK ZECH, JR. — HENRY HEYMAN — MRS. LOUISA MARRINER-CAMPBELL — SAMUEL D. MAYER — MRS. J.M. PIERCE
32. 32.CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX — REMINISCENCES OF LATER CALIFORNIA MUSICIANS AND SINGERS — JOSEPH MAGUIRE — MR. AND MRS. STEPHEN W. LEACH — PROF. FREDERICK KATZENBACH — RICHARD THOMAS YARNDLEY — WILLIAM M'FARLAND GREER — MARY CHENEY-CLARK — CHAS. H. SCHULTZ — OTTO BLANKART — MRS. THERESA BLANKART — M. AUGUSTA LOWELL-GARTHWAITE — SANTIAGO ARRILLAGA Y ANSOLA — MISS CARRIE HEINEMANN — HENRY S. STEDMAN — THE HINRICHS FAMILY — H.B. PASMORE — WALLACE A. SABIN, F.R.C.O., F.A.G.O. — JOHN W. METCALF — GEORGE LINCOLN BLAKE — PROF. HUGO MANSFELDT — A.W. KLOSE. — SAN FRANCISCO'S CELEBRATED FRENCH HORN QUARTETTE — GEO. FLETCHER, WM. E. BLAKE, NATHANIEL PAGE, GEORGE STOREY — PROF. MAURO SOLANO
33. 33.CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN — WITH MY PUPILS — WILLIAM H. KEITH — MADAM TREGAR — THE JORAN QUARTET — WM. P. MELVIN — ROSE CHAMPION — LORINA ALLEN KIMBALL — PAULINE PETERSON — BERTHA GRACE HUNTER — GEORGE G. PETERSON
34. 34.CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT — A LIST OF MY PUPILS

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