The paragraph before Schiff starts the list reads:

   "Clearly, it is time to test some critical values for a musical
   culture that has broken down the old barriers between high art and
   low, and more interestingly, between performance and composition.
   To foster such an exercise, I offer a short and glaringly incomplete
   list of musical giants, seen from both old and new perspectives.  I
   won't offer a Top 10 list, because lists turn art into homework."

Clearly, Schiff is not offering a list of "giant composers." He is merely
giving a few examples of composers he thinks the CM community has been
revaluing lately.

Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]