Margaret Mikulska: >People love myths and apocryphal anecdotes probably because most of them >don't require any intellectual (or musical, if music is involved) effort >whatsoever to "understand" them. It's easy to say, after hearing 2-3 >notes from the same chord, that it's a quotation. From then on, one can >spun one's own fantasies. ... Well, since I'm not equipped for such work and now that I've got you here: I've noticed a similarity of part of Brahms's second piano concerto to Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer." Coincidence? Steve Schwartz