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