"It’s really a home. It’s not like the White House because there aren’t tours of the vice president’s residence. You d…"

"My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflect…"

"As a music theorist, I have always contended that the historical approach to music theory is not enough. The modern t…"

"In music, the great essential after creation itself is communication through performance...it is of immediate and pri…"

"The artistic contribution of any nation and any age must be in terms of creation. Performers, symphony organizations,…"

"The most complete knowledge of tonal material cannot create a composer any more than the memorizing of Webster's dict…"

"To the artist, to the musician, is given the task of creating and expressing beauty--of sensitizing the souls of men."

"It is almost a marvel that trees should live to become the oldest of living things. Fastened in one place, their stru…"

"As soon as the 's is completed, it begins to accumulate trash and mud. In a little while, usually, it is covered with…"

"Most insects have enemies to bite them. The spreads death among injurious grubs. Efforts to control forest-enemies wi…"