Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Permissions xi Of Worcester and London: An Introduction xiii BYRON ADAMS PART I: WORCESTER Measure of a Man: Catechizing Elgar's Catholic Avatars 3 CHARLES EDWARD MCGUIRE Elgar the Escapist? 39 MATTHEW RILEY Elgar and the Persistence of Memory 59 BYRON ADAMS "The Spirit-Stirring Drum": Elgar and Populism 97 DANIEL M. GRIMLEY PART II: DOCUMENTS Early Reviews of The Apostles in British Periodicals 127 SELECTED, INTRODUCED, AND ANNOTATED BY AIDAN J. THOMSON Charles Sanford Terry and Elgar's Violin Concerto 173 TRANSCRIBED AND INTRODUCED BY ALISON I. SHIEL PART III: LONDON Elgar's Critical Critics 193 AIDAN J. THOMSON Elgar and the Salons: The Significance of a Private Musical World 223 SOPHIE FULLER Elgar and the British Raj: Can the Mughals March? 249 NALINI GHUMAN Working the Crowd: Elgar, Class, and Reformulations of Popular Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 287 DEBORAH HECKERT Elgar's War Requiem 317 RACHEL COWGILL PART IV: SUMMATION Transcending the Enigmas of Biography: The Cultural Context of Sir Edward Elgar's Career 365 LEON BOTSTEIN Index 409 Notes on the Contributors 423

About the Author

Byron Adams is professor of composition and musicology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coeditor of "Vaughan Williams Essays".

Reviews

"Byron Adams clearly loves Elgar and his music...[His] chapter on Elgar's self-education...is a fascinating exploration of how books read by the budding composer had an enduring influence on his music."--Daniel Jaffe, BBC Music Magazine "This fine and fascinating book includes welcome pieces by younger scholars working in the U.S. and England--recent PhDs who bring new perspectives, ideas, and methodologies to this tricky and provocative branch of socio/historical musicology. In addition to providing a clear, helpful introduction and a striking essay on the persistence of memory, Adams proves himself an inspired editor. The 13 essays--not a dud among them--look at societal, cultural, historical, and psychological aspects of Elgar's life and world."--W. Metcalfe, Choice "[A] handsome volume of essays by a dozen scholars, who strive to assess Elgar?s place in music history."--George B. Stauffer, Weekly Standard "It is greatly to the credit of Byron Adams that, amid the plethora of Elgar material published in the last few years, Edward Elgar and His World is a vital contribution... Here Adams challenges us with a rich contextual study not of Elgar's world, but of many conflicting and contradictory worlds in which the composer lived, battled, triumphed, failed, and died."--James Brooks Kuykendall, Notes "The essays in Edward Elgar and His World ambitiously and successfully delineate the complexity of Elgar's world and the composer's place in it... All of the essays in ... offer richly detailed, extensively documented, and fascinating explorations of different aspects of Elgar's world."--Dan Kline, Victorian Studies "This collection contains almost nothing that is unworthy, and several chapters that significantly advance the important recent realignments in Elgar scholarship (and, I hope, more widely). The old guard may grow their ulcers, but humanities scholarship should be grateful to Adams. Elgar's world has never been more illuminatingly painted."--J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Music and Letters