STRAVINSKY’S, MUSIC
Sir, —It all depends on what you call “real harmony.” Harmony is in the ear of the listener. No child is bom with a sense of harmony; he develops his own. according to the music he hears. It is. like the oyster, an acquired taste. The “real harmony” of “L.R.S.M.” would be so much discordant noise in the ear of a Balinese. I do not prefer Stravinsky’s music to that of Beethoven and company, but I am striving (and succeeding) to obtain the new sense of harmony necessary to appreciate his and his contemporaries’ music If “L.R.S.M.” is not too hide-bound. I suggest that he does the same. Should he do so he would realise that both Handel and Stravinsky may be enjoyed. but not compared. After all, you cannot compare the taste of an oyster to that of a piece of toast. — Yours, etc., B. W. MORONEY. April 8, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 3
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