For some years (one no longer knows how many—they have seemed interminable) French music has been marking time. It has survived, however, and continues its course thanks to the ardour of its devotees. Many of them have suffered the most unjust ostracism owing to the blindness of a nation that judged their work dangerous and contrary to the principles of National Socialism. This question of German musical politics is discussed by Marc Pincherle in the first number of the new French musical review Contrepoints.