Volume 28, Number 20 · December 17, 1981

Music Does Not Flow

By Virgil Thomson

Comparing history to a stream, no doubt an urgent idea when new, seems nowadays less vigorous, especially regarding the arts. So also does belief in their continuing progress, as if any series of related events involved necessarily a destination.



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