Krishan P Oberoi writes: >Why can't a newcomer go straight to Britten, Copland or Philip Glass >without first going through Mozart and Bach? There's nothing to stop him/her. That's the best way to get acquainted with the music of Britten,Copland and Philip Glass. But it's no way of getting to know the heartland of clsical music, which is the Received Canon.It's true, though, that by listening to B&C&PG, you may, just incidentally, garner some useful inferences about the heartland. Denis Fodor