Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Musical Directory, 1861 The same laborious perseverance that has been exercised in preparing the present volume will be devoted to those issued in future years; and no pains will be spared to make each issue worthy of the patronage of all musical people. As the ground is now broken we may hope to attain, in the future, that perfection which was impossible in this first at tempt. We will be grateful to those friends who may send us facts to aid us in carrying out our designs, and making the Musical Directory both complete and accurate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.