Starting from Leo Stein’s prediction that the war would sweep away the cubists, Van Vechten considers what music might come next. He writes on the secret of the Russian Ballet, Stravinsky as a new composer, Massenet and his heroines, whether music belongs in museums, and the stage designs of Adolphe Appia and Gordon Craig.
Lively criticism from a young champion of modernism who later became a novelist and photographer. Download the free EPUB.