Introductory remarks / A. T. Davison -- Raison d'être if criticism in the arts / E. M. Forster -- Scope of music criticism / Roger Sessions -- Critical nature of a work of art / Edgar Wind -- Performer as critic / Olga Samaroff -- Art of judging music / Virgil Thomson -- Consequences of the recorded performance / Otto Kinkeldey -- Equipment of the musical journalist / P. H. Lang -- Future of musical patronage in America / Huntington Cairns.