American music didn’t get much respect in the Old World in the19th century, and maybe one reason for that was that it had little of what could be called a distinctive American voice.
This would all change later on with the coming of the Jazz Age, but in the meantime there were a few composers who didn’t fit the traditional mold.
We’ll look at two of them, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Scott Joplin on this Sunday’s program.
6:00 p.m on WFIT, 89.5 FM, streaming at WFIT.org or ask your smart speaker to play WFIT.
