The Ideal World of Mrs. Widder's Soirée Musicale: Social Identity and Musical Life in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Mercury Series (0316-1854)) - Softcover

Guiguet, Kristina Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0660193442 ISBN 13: 9780660193441

Publisher: Canadian Museum of History, 1905

Synopsis

The printed program of Mrs. Widder's 1844 Soirée Musicale, a formal concert at her lavish Toronto, lists eleven musicians performing opera, parlour ballards, and glees. This information helped trace the networks which drew a working tenor and leisured Lady and Gentlemen Amateurs into a brilliant program balancing aesthetics with social politics. The widder program reveals how conventions linking class and gender with musical genre and local issues shaped the meaning of musical life both public and private. The Soirée Musicale, a concert form transplanted from imperial London, was the embodiment of an idealized hierarchical universe.

About this title

About the Author:

From classical recitals to the Phantom of the Opera, Kristina Guiguet's international singing career prompted this study of nineteenth-century Canadian musical life. Her Carleton University Master's thesis, the original version of this publication, won the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work (M.A.).

About this edition

• Publisher: Canadian Museum of History
• Publication date: 1905
• ISBN 10: 0660193442
• ISBN 13: 9780660193441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154