Several organizations have worked for the cause of modern music by presenting concerts devoted to works by contemporary Europeans and Americans. The Pro Musica Society has been responsible for the visits to this country of Maurice Ravel, Bela Bartok, Darius Milhaud, Alexandre Tansman and Arthur Honegger.
The League of Composers (founded 1923) has had many notable “first performances” of compositions by Schoenberg, Bloch, Bartok, Stravinsky, Gruenberg, Malipiero, Hindemith, Copland, de Falla, Whithorne, Carrillo, etc.
Our Good-Bye
This book has been longer than it should have been, yet our sins have been of omission rather than commission. But if we have only made you realize that the world cannot stand still, that music is always growing whether we understand it or not, and the good is handed on to the next generation even though much “falls by the wayside,” we will not have written in vain.
SOME OF THE BOOKS WE CONSULTED
Afro-American Folk Music, H. E. Krehbiel. (Schirmer, 1914.)
The History of American Music, Louis C. Elson. (Macmillan Co.)
Music in America, Dr. Frederick Louis Ritter. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890.)
My Musical Life, Walter Damrosch. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923.)
Stephen Collins Foster, Harold Vincent Milligan. (G. Schirmer, 1920.)