March 8

As regards producing a book of Bahá'í songs, your understanding that there is no cultural expression which could be called Bahá'í at this time (distinctive music, literature, art, architecture, etc., being the flower of the civilization and not coming at the beginning of a new Revelation), is correct. However, that does not mean that we haven't Bahá'í songs, in other words, songs written by Bahá'ís on Bahá'í subjects.... (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi dated 21 September 1957 to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Music)