Steve Schwartz wrote:
>No. Read Bamboula! by S. Frederick Starr, on the life and times of
>Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Among other things, he traces the rise in the
>19th century of the churchly notion of concertgoing, an attitude that got
>going around Boston, on the fringes of American Transendentalism.
The German Romantics, culminating in Wagner with his "Art and Religion"
would have something to add to that...
Stirling