在美国,有一种倾向,每一代人都试图忘却前人,并且常常忽视自己那最近的往事(我们认为前人和往事,对青年学者们研究技巧有奇特的作用)——这是美国人对待本国的重要艺术家的典型态度;美国人对活跃在本世纪最初的20年间,当年被称为“超现代派”的数目众多的美国作曲家的普遍忽视,部分地要归因于上述的那种倾向。另一个不幸的情况是,现在对这些作曲家的兴趣被唤醒了,但那是因为他们的音乐符合战后从欧洲进口来的新参照系的构架;这就证实了一个令人 In the United States, there is a tendency that every generation tries to forget about their predecessors and often overlooks their recent past (we think foregathers and pasts have a peculiar effect on young scholars’ research skills) - that’s what Americans treat The typical attitude of the country’s major artists; the general neglect of the American community by the large number of American composers active in the first two decades of this century when the so-called “ultra-modernist” was then attributed in part to the above tendency. Another unfortunate situation is that the interest in these composers is now awakened, but only because their music is in line with the architecture of the new frame of reference for the post-war import from Europe; this confirms an impressive