Fredrick A. Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, made a startling diagnosis of the condition of music in Europe. Mr. Stock's visit to the older world was partly in quest of new compositions—as is usually the case with a symphony orchestra director who wanders in other lands.
" The state of musical composition in Europe indicates the approach of another general war," Mr. Stock opined. The music grows wilder and more hysterical, with a frenzy of new disharmonies, new sensations. It is an increasingly mad and neurotic development in the most fluent...
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