Barry Brenesal: >... Let's add Gabriella Bacewicz and Zara Levina if nobody else has, and >Aram Khachaturian's daughter, whose name has for the moment slipped what's >left of my mind. I think it's Karen Khachaturian. Anyway, shame on me for forgetting Grazyna Bacewicz, whose music I heard originally on Polish LPs and, at one time at any rate, could be found on Olympia and Koch CDs. If Bartok is a great composer, then so is she. Of course, by "great" I mean "I like her music as much as I like Bartok's music," rather than some sort of "natural standard" of greatness. Anybody know Vaughan Williams's student Elizabeth Maconchy or Holst's pupil Jane Joseph? Maconchy has written some fine string quartets and a marvelous English "Moldau" called "Proud Thames," among many other things. I have heard absolutely nothing by Joseph, but Havergal Brian admired the music greatly. Steve Schwartz