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
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