The Little Review, April 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 2)

The Little Review, April 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 2)

I want to write about so many things this time that I dont know where to begin. At first I had planned to do five or six pages on the crime of musical criticism in this countryparticularly as focused in the critics antics with Scriabins beautiful Prometheus recently played by the Chicago Symphony. Truly that was an opportunity for the American music critic! He could be as righteously bourgeois as he wished and his readers would credit him with sanity and a clear vision; or he could be as ignorantly facetious as he wished and increase his reputation for wit. It didnt occur to him that there might be something wrong with his imagination rather than with Scriabins art. How exciting it would be to find a music critic whose auditory nerves were as sensitive as his visual or gustatory nerves! Surely its not asking too much of people engaged in the business of sound that they be able not only to listen but to hear. Well ... there were many other matters I wanted to write of: For instance, the absurdity of our music schools; the pest of writers who begin their sentences But, however,; the so-far unnoticed strength of Sanin; the fault with George Middletons Criminals; the antics of the Drama League; the stunning things in The Egoist; exaggeration as a possible basis of art; the supremacy of Form; the undefinable standard of those of us who hate standardizations, etc., etc. But for the moment I have found something more important to talk about: Mr. Anthony Comstock. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66054
Author: Anderson, Margaret C.
Release Date: Aug 13, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Anderson, Margaret C., 1886-1973