figures of our time. With a slight change of emphasis we can take it
as a challenge to American music, and to any music from any source.
American musical maturity, or if one prefers, the drive toward that
cultural maturity, coincides with one of the most formidable crises
through which human imagination has passed, and one which demands
maturity, urgently, from every possible source. We have reason to hope
that we American musicians may learn to meet the challenge implied in
Schönberg’s words, the eternal challenge of art itself, in a worthy
manner which does full justice to the situation.
Transcriber’s Notes
The cover image was created by the transcriber from the title page and
is placed in the public domain.
As all other foreign words were in italics in the original, d’amore
has been italicized for consistency.