Margaret Mikulska:
>People love myths and apocryphal anecdotes probably because most of them
>don't require any intellectual (or musical, if music is involved) effort
>whatsoever to "understand" them. It's easy to say, after hearing 2-3
>notes from the same chord, that it's a quotation. From then on, one can
>spun one's own fantasies. ...
Well, since I'm not equipped for such work and now that I've got you here:
I've noticed a similarity of part of Brahms's second piano concerto to
Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer." Coincidence?
Steve Schwartz