Jocelyn Wang <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Joel is hardly the only one who identifies Schoenberg and his atonal
>followers as villians.

I had a great professor in school by the name of Alan Fletcher, who had
been a pupil of Roger Sessions. Fletcher liked to facetiously remark that
the development of music was going quite well, "until Schoenberg had to
come along and ruin the 20th century for everybody".

Krishan Oberoi
North Providence, RI   USA