The 1918 pandemic’s impact on music? Surprisingly little

“Music Nets Millions for Liberty Loan Drive,” proclaimed a front-page headline in October 1918. A major gala at the Metropolitan Opera had just raised more than $20 million for that World War I bond campaign. The New York Philharmonic had raised another $1 million in its own patriotic concert, with George M Cohan leading his hit “Over There.”

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