f the tininess of
the human elements in the race, the enormity of the animal past. For
Ernest Bloch, the primeval forest with its thick spawning life, its
ferocious beasts, its brutish phallic-worshiping humanity, is still
here. Before him there still lie the hundreds and hundreds of thousands
of years of development necessary to make a sapient creature of man.
And he writes like one who has been plunged into a darkness and sadness
and bitterness all the greater for the vision of the rainbow that has
been given him, for the glimpse he has had of the "pays du soleil," the
land of man lifting himself at last from the brute and becoming human.
For he knows too well that only aeons after he is dead will the night
finally pass.

And he is the modern insomuch as the fusion of East and West is
illuminated by what he does. The coloration of his orchestra, the cries
of his instruments, the line of his melody, the throbbing of his pulses,
make us feel the great tide sweeping us on, the wave rolling over all
the world. In his art, we feel the earth itself turning toward the light
of the East.

APPENDIX

WAGNER

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig on May 22nd, 1813. He died in
Venice February 13th, 1883. The facts of his career are too well known
to justify rehearsal.

The dates of the composition and first performances of his operas are:
"Rienzi," 1838-40; premiere in Dresden, 1842. "Tannhaeuser," 1843-45
(Paris version, 1860); Dresden, 1845. "Lohengrin," 1845-48; Weimar,
1850. "Das Rheingold," 1848-53; Munich, 1869. "Die Walkuere," 1848-56;
Munich, 1870. "Tristan und Isolde," 1857-59; Munich, 1865. "Siegfried,"
1857-69; Bayreuth, 1876. "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg," 1861-67;
Munich, 1868. "Die Goetterdaemmerung," 1870-74; Bayreuth, 1876.
"Parsifal," 1876-82; Bayreuth, 1882.

STRAUSS

Richard Strauss was born in Munich June 11th, 1864. His father, Franz
Strauss, was first horn-player in the Munich Court Orchestra. His mother
was the daughter of the beer brewer, Georg Pschorr. He began composing
at the tender age of six. From 1870 to 1874 he attended the elementary
school at Munich. In 1874 he matriculated at the Gymnasium, and remained
there until 1882. During the next year he attended lectures at the
University of Munich. From 1875 to 1880 he studied harmony, counterpoint
and instrumentation with Hofkapellmeister F. W. Meyer. His compositions
were performed publicly from 1880 on. In 1885 he made the