@article{437996,
      recid = {437996},
      author = {Horowitz, Joseph,},
      title = {Moral fire musical portraits from America's fin de siècle  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of California Press,},
      address = {Berkeley :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 265 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437996},
}