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- W65954108 abstract "the heavenly world to come, when the mighty shall be cast down from their seats and the humble and meek shall be exalted, I like to think there will be a little special Paradise set aside for those artistic souls whose earthly pilgrimage was beset with such rocky pavements and such thorny obstructions that they never arrived even within sight of their goal. We shall find there those mute inglorious Miltons, those potential geniuses who never groped their way to ultimate self-expression, those flowers that wasted their sweetness on the desert air or perhaps never produced a blossom. We shall find there a large delegation of early American musicians whose very names are now known only to a few painstaking historians and whose sum of artistic achievement is so pitifully small as to be practically negligible. Chief among them will be Stephen Foster, whose oversweet melodies and kindergarten harmonies will never procure him admission into the Valhalla of the truly great. And there will be also those lonely souls whose artistic instincts and futile strivings never found a worldly audience, for there was no audience to find. In order to understand their lives and correctly to estimate their achievements it is necessary to consider the very peculiar circumstances in which they lived. To one who has not lived in a community this is difficult hence the misunderstanding which many Europeans of the present day still have about musical in America. Indeed I am inclined to think that it is impossible for any European, accustomed to a civilization and cultural background centuries old, to realize what the phrase primitive conditions really means. I have been in communities in the far West and I know what the word pioneer means. I have some conception of what my forefathers experienced and just what it meant, that slow process of taming the wilderness, generation after generation pushing out to new land and new life, cutting down the trees, building the first log houses, pulling up the roots and hauling away the stones to put the first plow into the virgin soil, straining every" @default.
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