The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. |
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. |
There is, to be sure, a sense of adventure and challenge in articulating our conceptions, despite the fact that we can take so little for granted; and perhaps we tend to underestimate the struggle-element in the case of the earlier composers. |
This awareness of music in its largest sense - as a world-wide phenomenon - will inevitably have enormous consequences for the music of the future. |
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country. |
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. |
Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. |