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. . . as I look around me,
I see arithmetic triumphing
over the heart, and see that Goethe’s demand for an “exact
fantasy,” a
unity of feeling and understanding, is often ignored. In place of it, recently
such a once so richly and universally talented, uninhibited musician as
Ernst Krenek praised the number (Zahl) as the “salvation from the
dictatorship of invention.” Alongside this there stands the lonely and
grandiose effort of Carl Orff to go directly to the sources in things rhythmical,
harmonic, and melodic: there is no more moving manifestation of the creative
in our time than the coming together of such opposites. . . .
Hermann Reutter
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