Personally I have been made aware of this in many ways;

1. (1) By the extreme difficulty I find in getting a single word about music into a certain daily newspaper, which only a few months ago insisted upon my supplying it with a column a day; and since that paper has been described as one for “all thinking men and women,” I can only suppose that men and women are now not thinking much about music;

2. (2) I find it in the difficulty I have in concentrating my own attention upon the course of the music on the comparatively rare occasions when I enter a concert room;

3. (3) And in the fact that yesterday when I was reading a book on the harmony of Arnold Schönberg, the only emotion it raised was a vague hope that Schönberg might be somewhere in the German trenches.