George Whitefield Chadwick : the life and music of the pride of New England - Faucett, Bill F. (Boston, Mass. : Northeastern University Press, 2012)
Prologue: A Chadwick sketch -- The purest American stock : Chadwick's New England roots -- Musical atmospheres : early life in Lowell, Lawrence, Boston, and Michigan -- Chadwick's European education -- Getting started in Boston -- That fatal facility : Chadwick's Boston -- Songs & choruses, fairs & festivals : Chadwick & America's vocal traditions -- A hell of a job for a composer : taking charge at New England Conservatory -- Sketches in Americanism : Chadwick's instrumental music -- Chadwick, modernism & the end of an era : Adonais to Cleopatra -- Our great pilgrimage : Chadwick's grand tour -- Thursday evenings & the sea -- A beautiful but costly exotic : opera in Boston, the Met & the Padrone -- We live on hope : Chadwick's response to the Great War -- Altschüler -- Epilogue: Chadwick's death & legacy.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-399) and index.
Keywords: Chadwick, G. W. -- 1854-1931.; Composers -- United States -- Biography