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That other gilded age; High society in New York; High society in New York.(Books and Arts)(Review)
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The Economist (US)
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June 2, 2001| Author:
Beckert, Sven
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The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie 1850-1896.
CLASS struggle in late 19th-century New York between old and new money was fought on many terrains, but none so fiercely as grand opera. Sven Beckert, a Harvard historian, recounts the following musical episode in his illuminating book on the upper social reaches of Manhattan in the gilded age.
At the New York Academy of Music, an exclusive venue for opera from 1...
