Sergei Koussevitzky and His Epoch

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Excerpt from Sergei Koussevitzky and His Epoch: A Biographical ChronicleIf these words of Dostoevsky's are true of life and how true they are still! - the more certainly they are true of art. What is the life of an artist, and what is it called upon to serve? Particularly, is an artist constrained by his vocation to be an intermediate link between men and art? If we take this to be his allotted destiny, his supreme task, his glorious exploit, his ideal service, with all the ensuing consequences, what more can we add to Dostoevsky's assertion? Every thing is contained in it, as in a Simple and elementary formula. Always, in all times, it has been so. Of course there are occasions when this material satis faction of the spiritual hunger - a satisfaction which appears to be a normal and fundamental need of men in their relation to art - is eclipsed and replaced by something else, by certain artificial demands, com plex and abstract. Such eclipses occur from time to time, when one great period in art gives way to an other. They usually happen at the very moment when the change takes place, when one era has departed into the past and its successor has not yet matured.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.