James Tobin wrote:

>Many pieces that some have admired may never be heard again.  Other
>presently obscure works may become popular and critically acclaimed.

Possibly.  But weren't most of the works from earlier years that are
popular today already popular when they were written? Taking just this
century, the works Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich, Prokoffiev, Debussy,
Ravel, and other "modern" composers that have been mentioned, were known
and appreciated pretty much as soon as they were written, even if they also
had contemporary detractors.  They didn't have to "grow" on the musical
public's taste.

Walter Meyer