… this other music of today, the music of Bartók! Chaos in place of Cosmos, confusion in place of order, scattered clouds of aural sensation in place of clarity and shape, fortuitous proportions and a renunciation of architecture in place of structure and controlled development. Yet this too was masterly. Even beautiful, moving, sublime, wonderfully gifted! … And all the more beautiful and irresistible by virtue of its being precisely the music of our time: an expression of our experience, our view of life, our strengths and our weaknesses. It expresses us and our questionable life-styles while also affirming us. Like us, this music knows the beauty of dissonance and pain; the many scales of fractional and varied tones, the overthrow and relativization of morals and established modes of thought. No less than us does it know the yearning for the paradises of order and security, of logic and of harmony.