Catalonia and Turina's La Procesión del Rocio, which Debussy has compared to a luminous fresco, which reminds me that Spanish music altogether is unknown in our concert halls. We might hear more Sibelius and Musorgsky . . . Borodin . . . John Carpenter . . . Schoenberg's Five Pieces . . . Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps.[1] Why not even Petrouchka? Ornstein's The Fog, Ravel, Dukas (has La Péri been played here?), d'Indy, Korngold . . .
December 7, 1916.
- ↑ It is an interesting fact that, during the seven years which have elapsed since I wrote this paper, nearly, if not quite all of the pieces I mentioned have been performed in New York. It was not until January 1924, however, that Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps, which I heard in Paris in 1913, was given a hearing in New York.
