Alan Dudley proposes:

>There is a test.  If Robert, or anyone else, has heard the music of an
>unknown composer, has heard, and documented, his opinion of that composer's
>character and has later documented his success or failure, and has done
>this a sufficient number of times for the results to be statistically
>significant, then Robert, or whoever else does it, can claim to hear
>character in music.

Actually, if Robert's opinion is contradicted by biography, Robert can
always claim that the biographers are wrong or unperceptive.  We're back
to Square 1 with this.

>I agree, as usual, with Mimi.  Let's just listen to the music.

I agree with Mimi as well and as usual.

Steve Schwartz