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A Life in Limbo: Laura Langford and Brooklyn's Seidl Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2014

Joseph Horowitz
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Forum: Women and American Music, Three Stories
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 80 - 92
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2014 

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References

1 Horowitz, Joseph, Moral Fire: Musical Portrais from America's Fin-de-Siecle (Berkeley, 2012)Google Scholar, esp. ch. 3.

2 Horowitz, Joseph, Wagner Nights: An American History (Berkeley, 1994)Google Scholar, esp. ch. 10–12.

3 Sasson, Diane, Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality (Bloomington, IN, 2012)Google Scholar.

4 Here and elsewhere, I rely on press clippings from the Seidl Society Archives, Brooklyn Historical Society. Also invaluable is the online archive of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

5 Quoted in Horowitz, Moral Fire, 126–27.

6 Whitesitt, Linda, “Women as ‘Keepers of Culture’ Music Clubs, Community Concert Series, and Symphony Orchestras” in Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860, ed. Locke, Ralph and Barr, Cyrilla (Berkeley, 1997)Google Scholar, 72.

7 For background: Horowitz, Joseph, Classical Music in America: A History (New York, 2005)Google Scholar; and Whitesitt, “Women as ‘Keepers of Culture.’”

8 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sept. 1, 1890.

9 Leinsdorf, Erich, Cadenza, A Musical Career (Boston, 1976)Google Scholar, 118.