Bruce McKinney wrote:

>For me it's Nielsen.  Every few years I try listening to the symphonies
>to see if the path to understanding is at last unfogged, but to no avail.
>I just don't see the genius behind the music, although I know it's there.
>I'm consoled, though, by the fact that Leonard Bernstein agreed with me.
>He said, paraphrased, that the "rediscovery" of Nielsen in the '60s was,
>he thought, a big mistake.

Never heard that one.  Still, he made two fine recordings of the Third
and Fifth Symphonies, though I seem to recall a not so good Fourth, but
maybe I'm imagining it.

Roger Hecht