"John G. Deacon" wrote:

>...what it is that I find so irritating about the opening of the Janacek
>Sinfonietta....
>
>Well try these: raucous, whingeing/whining, repetitive, grating and lacks
>originality (in the sense that it is the kind of cliche'd musical sounds
>one might hear from a child shrieking out in the playground)....

This sounds like something one might find in Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical
Invective.  What I have learned is that there is no resonance between you
and this piece (or this opening, since I'm not sure whether the REST of the
work pleases you)--it is vibrating at an A but you are tuned to a B flat.

Chris Bonds