In 1880 A Symphony Pointed The Way To A Distinctly American Music. Then It Was Forgotten
"It's amazing that this landmark symphony could have been so easily forgotten. As with the other seminal New Englanders"George Whitefield Chadwick, Horatio Parker, and Edward MacDowell, among them"modernism killed off Paine's music. And with the ascendancy of American vernacular forms, reflected in the music of Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and others, any music arising from […]