[LAU] Paul Hindemith says hello

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Dave Phillips<dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Hi Dave,
   Good quote.

   I vote mostly prophetic.

- Mark