Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.19468 Composed by John Vorstz. Portraits, Bridges, Courtship & love, City & town life, Marriage. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.19468). The Highway in the Air. A Ballad of the Brooklyn Bridge. Words by Elf St. Moritz. Music by John Vorstz. Published 1883 by Hitchcock's Music Store, 166 Nassau St. Sun Building opposite the City Hall in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Bridges, Courtship & love, City & town life, Marriage. First line reads At the union of the cities by the Highway in the air, I met a pretty, witty little girl.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
