It makes us sure that he will finally come to terms with his managers
and audiences, and that the harm already done him by his way of life
will grow no greater. It convinces us that his present mood is but the
result of a necessary process of transition from one basis to another;
that the man is really summoning himself for the works that will express
him in his manhood. And we are positive that there will shortly come
from him weighty musical forms with colors as burning and deep as those
of his first pieces, and of like intensity and boldness; and that Leo
Ornstein is sure of reaching the high heaven of art for which he seemed
and still seems bound.
Bloch
Once before, East and West have met and merged. On the plains where the
soldiers of Darius and Alexander slaughtered one another, and where the
Macedonian phalanxes recoiled before the castellated elephants of Porus,
a marriage was consummated. Hovering over the heads of the opposing
armies, the angel of Europe and the angel of Asia embraced, and sent
their lifebloods coursing through each other. Passage was made to India.
The two continents slowly faced about. Two reservoirs that had been
accumulating for eons the precious distillations of two great centers of
the human race began mingling their essences.
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