Nonfiction
Autumn 1941
On Writing about Music
“Music is of all arts the nearest to the abstract sense … the most nearly related to Nature: not to its forms but to its being.” — Ferrucio Busoni. There never was […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1945
A Music Letter from England
It is almost certainly true that not in living memory has there been so much musical activity as there is in London at the present. The London Philharmonic Arts Club, […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1943
American Music (An English Perspective)
To attempt, from the European side of the Atlantic, any detailed criticism of American music would be, in view of the relative scantiness of our knowledge, as impertinent as it […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1943
Music Letter from England
London, October 5, 1942. Over here there is a boom in Culture; and a cosy place is assured for the arts in the democratic New Order. One wouldn’t wish to […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1942
Virginia Woolf: The Last Phase
Mrs. Woolf, we all know, is a Poet in Prose; or rather she had—at least up to the time of Orlando—a range of sensuous impressions which would have stood a […]