[LAU] Paul Hindemith says hello

[Dave Phillips]

Greetings,

Something to start the week. While reading from PH's A Composer's World 
this morning I discovered this passage:

"If there is anything remaining in this world that is on the one side 
basically aristocratic and individualistic and on the other side as 
brutal as the fights of wild animals, it is artistic creation. It is 
aristocratic, because it is the privilege of a very restricted number of 
people. If it could be democratized, it would lose its quality as an 
art, become reduced to a craft, and end as an industry. In many branches 
of our musical life we already have reached this lowest, industrial 
phase, as we let musical democracy have its unbridled way."

Prophetic or just dyspeptic ? Comments welcome...

Best,

dp