Mimi Ezust wrote:

>David Harbin wrote:
>>I can't stand Schubert's 9th "The Great".  It goes on and on and the
>>jolly tunes are irritating, failing to organically change or grow over
>>the symphony's tortuous length.  Not even Furtwangler/BPO can save this
>>symphony for me.
>
>I can sympathize with this.  When I was much younger (and much more
>impatient) I thought the same thing about Schubert's Ninth, his op.
>161 string quartet (G Maj.), AND most of Bruckbruckbrucknernerner.

   "In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes,
   try it for four.  If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen,
   thirty-two, and so on.  Eventually one discovers that it's
   not boring at all but very interesting."

        John Cage, Silence

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