Moral Fire

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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

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