04538nam 2201033Ia 450 991079000810332120230801221910.01-280-11649-897866135207840-520-95186-710.1525/9780520951860(CKB)2670000000155950(EBL)869323(OCoLC)779828969(SSID)ssj0000612348(PQKBManifestationID)11374952(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612348(PQKBWorkID)10567241(PQKB)10840001(MiAaPQ)EBC869323(DE-B1597)520441(DE-B1597)9780520951860(Au-PeEL)EBL869323(CaPaEBR)ebr10539242(CaONFJC)MIL352078(EXLCZ)99267000000015595020111101d2012 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrMoral fire[electronic resource] musical portraits from America's fin de siècle /Joseph HorowitzBerkeley University of California Pressc20121 online resource (285 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26744-3 Includes bibliographic references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Introduction --Prologue --Chapter 1. Henry Higginson: High Culture, High Finance, and Useful Citizenship --Chapter 2. Henry Krehbiel: The German-American Transaction --Chapter 3. Laura Holloway Langford: Servitude, Disquiet, and "The History of Womankind" --Chapter 4. Charles Ives: Gentility and Rebellion --Summation: Defining an American Fin de Siècle --Notes --Index --About the AuthorJoseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890's) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy." Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities-Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives-whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.MusicUnited States19th centuryHistory and criticismMusicUnited States20th centuryHistory and criticismMusic patronageUnited StatesHistory19th centuryMusic patronageUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMusical criticismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryMusical criticismUnited StatesHistory20th century19th century music.20th century music.american culture.american history.american music history.american musical life.american studies.boston symphony orchestra.charles ives.classic music.classical music.classical orchestra.cultural historians.gilded age.henry higginson.henry krehbiel.history of music.human nature.laura langford.moral values.music history and criticism.music lovers.music studies.musicians and historians.musicology.turn of the century america.us culture.us history.MusicHistory and criticism.MusicHistory and criticism.Music patronageHistoryMusic patronageHistoryMusical criticismHistoryMusical criticismHistory780.973/09034Horowitz Joseph1948-1574587MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790008103321Moral fire3850945UNINA