"Perhaps the most hallowed of traditions among artists of creative
  vigor is this: traditions in the creative arts are per se suspect.
  For they exist on the patrimony of standardization, which means
  degeneration. They dominate because they are to the interest of
  some group that has the power to perpetuate them, and they cease
  to dominate when some equally powerful group undertakes to bend them
  to a new pattern. It is not difficult for the alert student to
  acquire the traditional techniques. Under the pressures of study
  these are unconsciously and all too easily absorbed. The extent
  to which an individual can resist being blindly led by tradition
  is a good measure of his (sic) vitality.

  "Traditions remain undisturbed when we say: let us improve ourselves;
  let us become better pianists, teachers, conductors, better composers.
  They remain undisturbed when we say: let us increase the knowledge
  and appreciation of 'good' art. Traditions remain undisturbed,
  univestigated, and therefore a culture based upon such
  palpably noble precepts is already senile."  H.P.


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