The New Soundscape a handbook for the modern music teacher

Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Beethoven’s Fifth: “Yes, but is it music?”
Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Wagner’s Tristan: “Yes, but is it music?”
Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Stravinsky’s Sacre: “Yes, but is it music?”
Overheard in the lobby after the premiere of Varese’s Poeme electro­nique: “Yes, but is it music?”
A jet scrapes the sky over my head and I ask: “Yes, but is it music? Perhaps the pilot has mistaken his profession?”