James Tobin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:


Deryk Barker refers to Gorecki's Third as:
>
>>...that godawful symphony.
>
>I understand the hostility of Boulez, who called this a work for "cleaning
>ladies," and the feelings of Doug Purl, who once expressed his distress at
>the patriotic/religious content of the Polish texts, but, although I should
>know better where Deryk is coming from aesthetically I don't.  Why the
>hostility?

I found it deeply boring. My hostility is doubtless due to its
all-persaveness (now thankfully abated).

Deryk Barker
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