Keith Bramich wrote:

>1) Can you really cope with late Britten or, if you're honest, do you still
>prefer the Frank Bridge Variations or, if pushed (hard?), the War Requiem?

Britten should be Late - very late, miss his bus preferably??

>2) Do you really love Bartok Quartets as much as the Concerto for
>Orchestra?

The cat & dog have Nitemayors over Bartok - any??

>3) Given a choice between Peter Grimes and La Boheme, which would you go
>for?

Poppea!!

>4) Can you name any piece by Ligeti?

He da italian a plumba!!

>5) Have you ever listened to John Cage for longer than 4 minutes 32
>seconds?

John C - he should be in a cage like de budgies!!

>6) Would you open the door to Thomas Ades without a letter of introduction
>from Ralph Vaughan Williams? No!

VW would find his welcome curtailed A4 he got in!!

>7) Do you whisper a prayer of thanks now that Maxwell Davies is back in the
>fold - the Strathclyde Concertos are OK and you'll never have to turn off
>the Fox-trot for Orchestra ever again? I don't even know who Maxwell Davies

Isn't Maxwell-Davies a Welsh- Scots-Nationalist MP??

>8) Do you congratulate yourself that you've got beyond Rachmaninov 2 and
>into the much grittier 3 and 4?

Isn't Rach 2 the Muzak @ K-Mart??

>9) And do you take a patronising view of those antedeluvians who haven't
>yet weened themselves off Sibelius 5 and discovered instead the stark
>'modernism' of Tapiola and the one-movement Symphony in C?

Australia May soon "want" a President - why Not an "antedeluvian"??

>10) And then, of course, there's Schoenberg, Berg and Webern.  Do you
>really ever pay attention to anything later than Verklarte Nacht?

Just who are that gang of Europeans - did they come to work as "2 bob"
migrants here??

>11) Can you really offer corporate clients tickets to Lulu, even if it is
>at Glyndebourne? And have you ever really managed to follow a tone-row in
>Webern from the beginning right to the end of the piece?

The only reason to offer clients tickets to "Lulu" either Wozzek's or the
"Liverpool" dolly bird - would be to totally offend them and make them race
to yer competitors!!  It is past Breakfast time = gotta go!!

Bill(Y) Baroque & Broke again + @ 5 degrees C, on the verge of Frozen
stiff!!  This is a Serious Reply - Dinkum??