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