John Smyth writes:

>Mahler was fascinated, but not intimidated or worried that his music would
>suddenly be rendered obsolete by Schoenberg's ideas.

Hmm, "obsolete".  Interesting, perhaps symptomatic (?) choice of word.
I cannot imagine any interpretation of the word "obsolete" that could
sensibly be applied to a work of art.  Perhaps that is where the perceptual
dichotomy occurs?

len.