Music at the McCullough's Home

The McCullough family loved music. Their house had a special room called the music room where they kept musical instruments, like their Sterling pump organ that was made about 1860. Lizzie took singing lessons even when she was a grown up. Some of the songs that were popular when Hall Park, Bess, Ella, and Esther were growing up are songs that you might know today. If Lizzie invited you to sing a song with the family that you didn't know, she would have given you the music and words to follow.

Popular 19th Century Songs

When the McCullough family was in Vermont, they enjoyed listening to open-air concerts of American music. In New York, they attended the opera and concerts of classical music, where they heard popular European composers of the day, including Tschaikowsky, Johann Strauss, Jr., Brahms, Mussorgsky, Debussy, and Schumann. Some of these composers wrote pieces especially for children.