Walter Raymond Spalding

"Chabrier is noted for a bold exuberance and vividness of expression, for a sense of humor and for a power of orchestral color and brilliance which have not been duplicated.  …  Born in the South of Fr…"

"We realize, and with our inborn equipment can appreciate, the moving power of music; but to define, in the usual sense of the term definition, what music really is, will be forever impossible.  The fa…"

"In general, Chopin's style is homophonic—wondrous lyric melodies which seem to float on waves of richly colored sound.  But there is also much subtly used polyphony, i. e., delightful phrases in inner…"

"knowledge of Bach is the beginning of musical wisdom."

"The significant development of the Harvard Band is chiefly attributable to the artistic skill and enterprise of Leroy Anderson.  Anderson has a remarkable inborn sense of rhythm and magnetic authority…"

"A glance at the score shows how sadly the pedagogue might go astray in judgment of the work, without a hearing of it, and furthermore, the imagination of the hearer must be in sympathy with the imagin…"

"Music is of such power and glory that we should be ready to devote to its study as much time as to a foreign language."

"It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words."