Noboru Inoue: >Unfortunately, PBS radio didn't reach Japan.. So I would like to ask about >another PBS lecture by Mr. Bernstein in 1976, Norton Lecture at HVD univ. >later broadcast on PBS. > >Title was Unquestioned Question, I have a book that contains the >transcription. The Unanswered Question. >In this book, Bernstein refers to Chomsky as its language theory is >applicable to music(deep structure for language and music). > >I do not agree with universal grammer and innate capability of language >of Mr. Chomsky; However if it is right, it should be applicable to music >naturally. > >Question is how the lecture, especially refering to Chomky, was accepted >or ignored or criticized. If some remember.. Bernstein was patronized by people who hadn't read Chomsky on grammar. I had. I thought he did a more-than-credible job explaining the fundamentals of the theory and a brilliant job applying it to music. Those are, in my opinion, among the best Norton poetry lectures ever. However, Joan Peyser, in her bird-brained biography of the composer, alleges that someone other than Bernstein actually wrote the lectures, something I find difficult, though not impossible, to accept. Peyser did such a poor job in general (with no evidence that she actually knows anything about music), if she told me the time, I'd check my watch. Steve Schwartz