Jeff Dunn wrote:

> I do feel--with respect to my particular bias, which I have learned
>never to ASSUME others share--that writing a truly beautiful, harmonized
>melody nowadays is more difficult to bring off than an entire atonal
>symphony.  Where are the truly great melodies of the last 50 years in
>serious music?

I am not a writer of music and I can only imagine how difficult it must
be to create a great melody. I feel that there are some American composers
that have: Bernstein, Barber, Rogers Menotti, & Copland come to mind as
exceptions.  A few of these have written for "musical theatre".  Would
you consider that music "serious".

Ed Beach

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