Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian
By:Adrienne Fried Block
Published on 2000-01-15 by Oxford University Press on Demand

|Block's fastidious research, together with her sympathetic mastery of the issues involved in writing a life, have yielded a lively portrait of this important musician and intriguing personality. The book is especially rich in its exploration of Beach's origins in family, community, and region, and in its ability to put her life experience into the context of America's changing cultural life.|--Ruth A. Solie, Smith College

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