Sandra Simons wrote:

>No matter how much we can endeavor into reductionism with respect to vinyl
>time constraints, it is obvious that the composition of serious music does
>not consider a time constraint on the respective media.

Well actually I know of one exception.  When the Harris Symphony 1933
was going to be released on 78s there was a blank side.  Harris was
commissioned to write a piece to fill out that blanks side and called
it Four Minutes and Twenty Seconds for Flute and String Quartet.

Karl