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Date:
Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:28:16 -0600
Subject:
Re: Britten Anniversary
From:
Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
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Ray Bayles replies to me about the three "indisputably great" English
composers:

>How can you leave out Handel?

Because, as has been pointed out, Handel is as English as Stravinsky is
American.  Handel merely made money off of the English.

Steve Schwartz

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