Re: [LAU] Paul Hindemith says hello

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