boston-town

Updated: June 16, 2025

Boston has been not only the promulgator, but in a great measure the tutor, of American music. In Boston-town, folk take things seriously and studiously. In New York they take them fiercely, whimsically. Like most generalizations, this one has possibly more exceptions than inclusions. But it is convenient.

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions

The prisoner's cell-door was left open, in the hope that he would escape, just as, later, George Francis Train enjoyed the distinction of being the only man who was literally kicked down the stone steps of the Tombs. Garrison was thrust out of limbo, with a warning, and a hint that Boston-town was a good place for him to emigrate from.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators