Rachel Lee wrote: >You mean to say, Don, that John Williams actually WROTE music for the >film...I would have thought by now he would be in prison for Grand Theft >Musicius. I am somewhat baffled by the extreme hostility expressed on this list towards John Williams, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Henryk Gorecki and a few others. I don't care much for them myself, but an awful lot of the commentary sounds more like sour grapes than reasoned criticism. I didn't mean to single out Ms. Lee's post, their have been dozens of others like it, most of them from list-members whose opinions I respect. Do we simply resent that they make a lot of money? That doesn't seem fair. Copland, Stravinsky, Vaughn Williams, Bartok, Kodaly, Liszt (all of whom I like), and many others have borrowed themes and ideas from folk music and/or other composers, yet they are never attacked for their borrowing. Can anyone supply me with an objective (as opposed to an emotional) explanation for this seemingly dual standard? Mike Cole [log in to unmask]