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