Do you really believe that you can judge a piece of music the way you would
judge gymnastics, or the dogs at a dog show? In the final analysis the work
moves you and draws you into its world or it doesn't.  And different works
will do it for different listeners, although there is clearly great overlap
in the results when masters are producing the music.  By no means perfect
overlap as discussions of Vivaldi and Beethoven on this liszt demonstrate!!

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University