"We have all been affected as , as teachers, asbyto an extent that cannot possibly be calculated as yet or predicted for the future. The music which is being most widely disseminated and most widely discussed, and therefore most widely imitated and influential, is that music which is available on records. The music that is only published is very little known. I don't think one can possibly exaggerate the extent to which the climate of music today is determined by the fact that the totalis available on records, that the totalis becoming available." Quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, .

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