Moral Fire - Joseph Horowitz

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List of Illustrations Introduction Prologue: Screaming Wagnerites and America's Fin de Siecle Music and moral passion--Revisionist portraiture--Framing fin de siecle 1. Henry Higginson: High Culture, High Finance, and Useful Citizenship Civil War service--A second home in Vienna--Announcing the Boston Symphony Orchestra--John Sullivan Dwight and musical uplift--Building Symphony Hall--Choosing a conductor--Masculine business versus feminine art--Karl Muck and the Great War 2. Henry Krehbiel: The German-American Transaction Race and the World's Columbian Exposition--The making of a music critic--Anton Seidl and Wagnerism made wholesome--Antonin Dvorak and Negro melodies--An activist American school of criticism--Salome and Mahler debacles--German-Americans and the Great War--Art as uplift 3. Laura Holloway Langford: Servitude, Disquiet, and The History of Womankind The Ladies of the White House--A tangled past--From theosophy to Wagnerism--Musical missionary work--Earnest, manly women--Reforming the Shakers--A life in limbo 4. Charles Ives: Gentility and Rebellion Charles and Harmony--A life saga--The business of life insurance--Transcendentalism in music--The symphonic ideal--Stream of consciousness--Ives's nervous complex--The residual Progressive Summation: Defining an American Fin de Siecle Boston decadents--A fin-de-siecle template--Mark Twain and hybridity--Social control and sacralization--World War I poisons Romantic uplift Notes Index