Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-01
MUSIC WEEK TYPlFiES
AN ESTHETlC REVOLUTION
In Genuine Appreciation Of the Best
Instrumental and Vocal Art America
10 Earning q New Prestige

What are the qualifications for such a
| title? IL production OF original works OF
! supreme genius is required. the alignment OF
| the foremost musical nations differs little
! from that of full century ago.
The pre- .emincncc of Central Europe. with
| a western otfshoot in France. n southern in
Italy and. within the last fifty years, with
fourishing annexes in Scandinavia and
| Russia. is indisputabe.
A Belgian by descent. n German by birth,
an Austrian by residence. the unchalenge-
able Beethoven may be iitly regarded as a
cultured product Of those forces. social and
racial. in the heart of the European PENN
sula in which the harvest Of musical inspira
ton has been richest.
This reckoning. however. ignores two fac
tors of considerable consequence in any COM
prehpnsive charting of music -- unschooled
folk inspiration. as in Spain, Portugal and
Latin America. and the power OF apprecia-
ton. which has attained almost unexampled
proportions in the Emitted States.
1t is. indeed, upon this mighty access Of
popular interest that the aim of this coun
try to be ranked with the musical nations
of the earth may he worthily presented.
Within the last quarter of a century there
has been effected in the United states an
artistic revolution the consequences Of which
The fear Of beauty is sometimes regarded
as in the main Puritan Inheritance: it's
dissolution as earnest of a thriving tolerance
and breadth of view There is undoubtedly
n partial truth in this deduction. and yet
it fails to explain antipathes of much
subtler origin.
Indifference TO music is n rather common
whom psthptic imnulses nre usuollv confined
to small. spcclalized circles. II is n NATURAL
reaction Of moiori,i.s ,o distru.t excmsjvc
culture, Often il is NOT ifs c>ponents who
draw the caste line IN, m. rrrp,nder,nre
of outsiders prom. 20 ">tima,r artistic re.
fnements as in n way unmuu,y or too cryptic
TO be invested with uutcn,i,(irjr. of wide
appeal.
II is NOT :, mnny >.urs ,cr,,inIv M
longer ago ,hun The ceu,curi.l ,r 1871; ,ha,
Theodore Thomas co,rn.rn - rypr.ssion ot
lofty musical ideals was attended with ma
tcrial disaster. 4 handful of ogl,red in.
tellectual Brahmins--th.v vould have becn
biyhbrows had the form h,.n ,b.n i,vo,tsd
later persisted in o,tenJu. tho mvx,pri,,,s
rites of the young Boston Symphony Or.
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.,was exceedingly strong nor ,n,v In phi,,d.,.
phia but. with Il few privllcyed rycru,lon>
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concerts will mark the formal observance of
Muslc Woek Rut ,bo s,.,;o, ,,I,.
this period is not exclusively reaeuiy. .,
musical conditions here.
The present season has hosn dis,i,cri.ho,
by the stimulating and successcuI yisi,o -
grand opera alone--the San Carlos the Mst.
roEoIitan. the Chicago and the Russian
companies. Mr.. StOkOwski's orchestra cvcIo