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Moral Fire : Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle

By Joseph , Horowitz

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0520267443, 978-0-520-26744-2, 9780520951860, 0520951867
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3040083 bytes)
Pages
285\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Higginson Henry Lee 1834 1919 Krehbiel Edward 1854

Description

Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: “If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) 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.

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