Moral Fire

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