Steve Schwartz wrote:

>...  The question that now comes up is how distorted is our view of
>music in general, let alone American music, since a lot of really good
>music and many wonderful composers aren't recorded at all?  Is it a
>matter of simply making the picture we already have clearer, or are
>we looking at substantially different picture?

I wouldn't say our view is distorted.  Myopic is the word that comes
to mind.  It is so myopic, that we have no sense of the entire picture.

A correspondant of mine does much of his research on concerted works
for piano and orchestra.  As I recall his list currently includes
about 12,000 pieces.  Ok, how many can any of us name...

Karl