Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — American and European Music. [ARTICLE]

American and European Music.

In the matter of the American invasion of Europe and the alarm it has oc casloned it is of interest to note that one of the leading Berlin musical critics recently delivered a lecture In that city in which he said that within twenty years the United States would be teaching music to Europe. He was of opinion that America is on “the threshold of a great musical career’ and that native composition, while only “emerging from its infancy, still affords rich promise.” He also Is ol opinion that German, Italian, and French Influence is waning, that the time is near when Americans will not have to leave home to get a musical education, and that “Sousa’s stirring works will live.”