Hey ...

I have an experience which is in some ways similar, but, more ways
that is not:  whatever the case, I place it in the field of 'musical
development'.  So a composer can develop his style and 'experiment' and
with each experiment he learns something new that he hadn't known before;
for each composition thereafter he knows something that he quite likes and
will use it or something akin to it, develop *that* further and further ...
ad nauseum.  Indeed, a performer will continue to get better and better -
I suppose - or rather, he will change his interpretations of a piece from
one recording to the next.  Surely as classical listeners, we can develop!
Anyway ...  I used to adore Tchaikovsky and especially his Sixth Symphony.
Now I find the works agonizingly boring, hackneyed, trite, *whatever*.  I
find that I am now interested to a much greater degree, than ever I was
before, in 20th Century music, not just Shostakovich and Prokofiev, but
Glass, Adams, Reich, Nyman - all those minimalist types - names that, a
year or two ago, I would not dared to have touched!  In one way, I can owe
this to the university library from which I borrow cds with said composers,
and this way, I can experiment with other styles without it hurting my
wallet.  But once I got a taste for it, well, now I'm buying Nyman and
Glass cds.

-Mark A. Knezevic
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