Steve wrote:

>This last Saturday, I drove to the new Mexican-American Cultural
>Center, here in Austin, the capital of Texas and home to one of the
>country's great universities, for a concert of new music featuring
>the human voice.

I am writing from Bogota (Colombia), rather far away from Austin, a
city I have not visited, but of great beauty according to some friends
that have been there.  I did attend a concert here in Bogota a few days
ago, performed by a couple of "avant garde" music ensembles and I came
away feeling pretty much thesame way you did after the concert you went
to at the Mexican American Cultural Center and thinking similar things.
After the concert I wondered if my appraisal of it was due to a certain
character of such music or to a lack of an "open mind" from my part, but
after reading your note and realizing that two similar but unrelated
events produced the same feeling in two people so far apart, I came to
the conclusion that perhaps I do not have a problem with my "mind" but
rather it is the music that has a problem.

Julio Ponce de Leon

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