Walter Meyer queried: >But if the recorded works' identification, rather than their description >was in error, what do Rouse's Symphony No. 1 and his Phantasmata sound >like? Rouse's first is a slow, dark, tortured fantasy that is very (to me) moving. Phantasmata is a tri-partite work very obviously by the same hand. I have the CD you thought you were getting and like it very much. I wish, however, I had a recording of the first time I heard the symphony. It was about 1995 or 1996 in a Chicago Symphony Concert, Zinman on the podium. I was on my way home but immediately I detoured to my local CD store and, very luckily, found the recording. It's worth seeking out. David Simmons [log in to unmask]