Mercury Series; Cultural Studies 77170 pages; 9 photographs; 8
illustrations; 5 tables; 6.75x9.5"; paper
English Performance conventions of the XIX century linked musical genres with the class and gender of their performers, linkages readily visible in Mrs.Widder's program designed for an intimate social circle, many of whom were central figures in pre-Confederation Canadian political history. The Ontario Soirée Musicale was a drama of difference, in which stable but sharply distinct categories of class and gender formed an idealized, hierarchical moral universe.