A Survey of American Music

Events

Benjamin Franklin invents the Glass Harmonica

1761

Jenny Lind US tour (date range)

September 1850 - May 1852

Gottschalk's The Banjo

1854

composed in 1853

Stephen Foster's "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair"

1854

Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony

1896

composed in 1894

John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever

1898

Broadway's 1st Golden Age (range)

1925 - 1960

Still Afro American Symphony

1931

composed in 1930

John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

1946 - 1948

Published in 1948

John Adams- Nixon in China

October 22, 1987