Steve Schwartz:

>As I said, nobody likes everything.  There's lots of music - mostly from
>the 18th and 19th centuries - I don't like and would prefer not to spend
>time hearing.  But unfortunately it does make me close-minded.

I wouldn't say so.  At least you listened to it enough to have a response
to it.  Now if you said, "I heard some 18th and 19th century music once and
catch me listening to anything like that again..." you'd be close-minded.
But in your case, that probably only applies to bel canto and early Mozart!

Jim Tobin