Len Fehskens replies to Ian Crisp:

>>1. A programme which is too familiar and offers little challenge. ...
>>3. The presence of a "warhorse" piece that I just can't face sitting
>>through again . . .
>
>Forgive me for being unable to relate to the idea that a piece of music can
>become so familiar as to be no longer worth hearing.  I have simply never
>understood this reaction.  Do you treat your best friends this way?

My *best* friends, no.  But there are many people I would prefer not to see
for a bit, even though I like them.  Besides, we seem to be seeing mostly
*your* friends.  Can't I have my friends over to the house once in a while?

Steve Schwartz