Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle by Joseph Horowitz
By Joseph Horowitz
Oseph Horowitz writes in ethical hearth: “If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites status on chairs (in the Eighteen Nineties) are unthinkable at the present time, it truly is in part simply because we distrust excessive feeling. our youngsters avidly focus on vicarious varieties of digital interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate international that shuns all yet facile passions; in simple terms Jon Stewart and invoice Maher percentage moments of ethical outrage disguised as comedy.”
Arguing that the earlier can turn out instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits 4 stunning personalities—Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives—whose missionary paintings within the realm of tradition signaled a trust within the primary decency of civilized human nature, within the universality of ethical values, and in growth towards a country of peace and love.
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8 A quarter century later, by which time he was far the dominant figure in the institutional cultural life of Boston, Higginson gave Harvard a new athletic field, dedicated as “Soldiers Field” to Charles Lowell, Robert Gould Shaw, Stephen Perkins, James Savage, and two other of his fallen Civil War comrades: Lowell’s brother James Jackson and the physician Edward Dalton. Speaking at a commemorative ceremony on June 5, 1890, Higginson also commemorated the now famous Memorial 24 | Henry Higginson Day address delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
But with its dour regime of Latin, Greek, and mathematics, Harvard was otherwise not a fit; by December, it was evident that Higginson’s weak eyes would force his departure. That summer Henry Higginson, age eighteen, set out for Europe. In the Swiss Alps he engaged a guide and climbed courageously, his hands stiff from cold because he took no gloves. He explored the Aar glacier, where Louis Agassiz had done research; he vaulted deep crevices; he ascended vertical rock faces. In correspondence with his father, he pondered learning German, the “finest” language after English, and living in Paris—“the most vicious, yet the most tempting and dangerous place on earth”—to learn French.
Henry Higginson. Photograph by Notman, courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives. . Never in my whole life have I seen anything approaching in the slightest degree to the excitement and the enthusiasm of the past week. Everything excepting the war is forgotten, business is suspended, the streets are filled with people, drilling is seen on all sides and at all times. . But you should have seen the troops, Jimmy: real, clean-cut, intelligent Yankees, the same men who fought in ’76, a thousand times better than any soldiers living.