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