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Chamber
Music
Joseph
Silverstein, violin
Jules Eskin,
cello
Virginia
Eskin,
Piano
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Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
occupies a unique position in the history of American
music: he was the first native-born composer to receive
all of his musical training in the United States. Studying
with John Knowles Paine, pioneer of the cultivated tradition
in nineteenth-century American music, Foote graduated
from Harvard in 1875 with the first master's degree
in music granted by an American university. Aside from
eight summer trips to Europe, where he met and heard
leading artists of the day, and one summer as visiting
lecturer and acting chairman of the music department
at the University of California at Berkeley, Foote spent
his entire professional life in Boston. A member of
the so-called Boston Group (he is most often linked
with George Chadwick, Horatio Parker, Arthur Whiting
and Amy [Mrs. H.H.A.] Beach), Foote was a seminal figure
in Boston's musical culture of the 1880's and 1890's.
from Notes
by Wilma Reid Cipolla
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