How Lucky Is The Man

In Him Converge All Previous Streams Of Tendency, Not As Into A Pool, Stagnant, Passive, Motionless, But As A Noble River That Received Its Tributary Waters And Bearss Them Onward In Larger And Statelier Volume.

Composers In The Old Days Used To Keep Strictly To The Base Of The Theme, As Their Real Subject. Beethoven Varies The Melody, Harmony And Rhythms So Beautifully.

Straightaway The Ideas Flow In Upon Me, Directly From God.

I Sometimes Ponder On Variation Form And It Seems To Me It Ought To Be More Restrained, Purer.

Straight-away The Ideas Flow In Upon Me, Directly From God, And Not Only Do I See Distinct Themes In My Mind's Eye, But They Are Clothed In The Right Forms, Harmonies, And Orchestration.