Satoshi Akima wrote:

>it is still preferable to start somewhere easier rather than to
>dive into the deep end of 20th century music.

I'm curious to know if anyone here has, or knows someone who has, come
to appreciate 20th-century atonal, pantonal, serial, etc.  music in vacuo,
i.e.  in relative unfamiliarity with the music of earlier centuries.  I
doubt it, but it's possible.

Chris Bonds