John Smyth asks Denis Fodor: >Do we really enjoy 'old' music ...by celebrating the whimsies and >extravagance of a creation resulting from the imperfect logic or incomplete >knowledge of its creator? Not my view. We enjoy it because we are satisfied by it. New music is a historical accretion ; on being inztroduced it is tthen fated to stand the test of time. >I would think that you are tacitly suggesting that new art will always be >more elegant and economical and appropriately *useful* than old art. No way. New art is merely a historical accretion to the old. >If you're comparing quantum theory to the avant-garde, maybe it's because >you're uncertain that the music is good?:) The comparison did not go the way you play it back. It went: Quatum physics is differrent from classical physics / Modern music is different from classical music. What the labels suggest (it isn't just me that's doing the suggesting) it's history that makes the difference. Denis Fodor