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[PAST EVENT] ?An American Musical Tourist: Piano Virtuoso Louis Moreau Gottachalk and The Banjo?

March 13, 2017
7:30pm
Location
Blow Memorial Hall, Room 201
262 Richmond Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location

The New Orleans-born virtuoso pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk made his New York debut in 1853, after studying in Paris and touring Europe to wild acclaim. Europeans loved the exotic "American" sound of his compositions. Americans, in contrast, responded to the nationalism of a newly emerging musical identity that they heard in such works as The Banjo. 

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Katherine Preston [[kkpres]]