Steve Schwartz:
>As I said, nobody likes everything. There's lots of music - mostly from
>the 18th and 19th centuries - I don't like and would prefer not to spend
>time hearing. But unfortunately it does make me close-minded.
I wouldn't say so. At least you listened to it enough to have a response
to it. Now if you said, "I heard some 18th and 19th century music once and
catch me listening to anything like that again..." you'd be close-minded.
But in your case, that probably only applies to bel canto and early Mozart!
Jim Tobin