Steve Schwartz responds to Bill Pirkle:

>>As I write this letter I am listening to the Warsaw Concerto on the
>>Arts channel as a fine example of music written in this century but in
>>a traditional style.
>
>The Warsaw Concerto I find a clever pastiche, rather than a fine example -
>one that's all elbow-nudges to the ribs.

Indeed.  The producers of the film Dangerous Moonlight originally intended
to use Rachmaninoff 2, but couldn't for some reason (heavens, *what* would
Brief Encounter have been without it?) and so commissioned Richard
Addinsell.

>So I will offer the example of Medtner's Piano Concerto No.  2 as a fine
>example of music written in this century but in a traditional style.

Not to mention Rachmaninoff 4, the Paganini Rhapsody, the Symphonic
Dances...

Deryk Barker
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