Excerpt from History of Music: In the Form of Lectures
To the young artists of America, in whose hands rests the musical future of their country, I dedicate the following pages. Our artists are entering on a new phase of existence. Our profession is no longer here, as it too long has been, at once a refuge, an exhibition platform, and a gambling bourse for ambitious amateurs, halfeducated artists, unprincipled speculators, and undisciplined critics. This state of things, that generation, is passing away: humbug and puffery have lost half their power; the once pardonable weakness, that formerly excused national artistic short-comings with the plea of youth, is becoming stale and meaningless. Our musical public is beginning to have an opinion of its own. It is time that the dawn of a school of American art should appear on the horizon.
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