Leo Ornstein, the Man--His Ideas--His Work; By Frederick H. Martens
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So little has been left to the imagina- tion of the listener that he is no longer required to create toward the artist. In all epochs of great musical art — the epoch of Bach, the epoch of Cesar Franck, for in- stance — it was realized that the province of art was not to instil a passive pleasure in the listener. Great music must wake in us a creative impulse. Unless it does that, it has failed to fulfil its destiny." This question of the listener creating toward the artist is one which has lar...gely preoccupied Ornstein, and is a factor in all his creative work. The music-lover, the auditor, from his standpoint, should not content himself with the passive sensuous enjoyment of a shower-bath of sound. The appeal of Ornstein's music is made directly 50 L.EO Ornstein " to the imagination of the listener; he strives to intensify and perfect the expression of emotion to such a degree that those who hear it react creatively; that is, are awakened to a definite individual concept and apprecia- tion of its meaning.
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