To write at this very moment an article on Strawinsky's latest work is rather a difficult task. Like all those who write on music I have to choose between publishing a tough analysis or composing a vast introduction, a sort of guidebook. Unfortunately in the present case the former would make sense to me alone, since up to now practically nobody has had a chance to hear the piece played or to study the score; whereas the latter, alas, would make no sense at all. I shall have to try a third road and, despite Schoenberg's emphatic warning, adopt a middle course.