Gottschalk News

The Green-Wood Historic Fund announced Tuesday that five prominent Americans from the fields of art, academia, music and film have been named to a special selection committee that will choose a new "Angel of Music" sculpture to grace the gravesite of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Green-Wood Cemetery.

Myra Weisgold is one of five sculptors chosen to participate in a competition to recreate the "Angel of Music," a sculpture which once graced the grave of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Myra Weisgold is one of five sculptors chosen to participate in a competition to recreate the "Angel of Music," a sculpture which once graced the grave of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

The Pasadena Pops Orchestra opened its last summer season at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge last weekend with a pair of concerts named after Louis Moreau Gottschalk's neglected symphony "A Night in the Tropics." They opened the evening with that symphony's almost-jazzy second movement, written half a century before jazz, and followed it, ...

Brooklyn's Historic Green-Wood Cemetery recently announced a new fundraising campaign to re-create "The Angel of Music" - a delicate and intricate sculpture that once marked the grave of legendary 19th century American composer-pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk .