Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>At this point, I wish to make it clear that I've got nothing against the
>RC... For those of you who want examples (and to show that I'm not
>handwaving), I'd offer the following:

Steve then spins into a listing of "top fifty," a roster which looks kosher
enough except, notably, for its lack of even a single Italian composer (but
the inclusion of Copland).  Are Rossini, Verdi and Puccini mere chopped
fegato?And if the inclusion of an American is judged to be de rigueur, why
not then Ives, who conveys both innovative genius and the American sound in
such works as the New England Symphony and George Washington's Birthday.
Moreover, to sniff away the RC as a nothing more than a compendium of
European continental music that happens to have been favored for
generations of degenerates is tantamount to a retraction of the
claim there's no prejudice against the RC.

Denis Fodor