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Music in New York — The Boston Symphony Orchestra — Other Great American Orchestras — The Chicago Orchestra — The Great Peace Jubilee — Keller's " American Hymn" — Musical Conditions of the Present — The American National Hymn of the Future — Conclusion.
In approaching the end of our subject, a retrospect may well be allowed; beginning with square-cut psalmody, with a proscription of secular music, with a most primitive orchestra, in a little more than a century America has become, at least in its chief cities, a field for the best music that the world can afford, and if the public taste is not yet on a par with the culture of European art-centres, at least there have been giant strides toward that desideratum. This has been chiefly due to four causes : the advances
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