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Bruce McKinney wrote:
>For me it's Nielsen. Every few years I try listening to the symphonies
>to see if the path to understanding is at last unfogged, but to no avail.
>I just don't see the genius behind the music, although I know it's there.
>I'm consoled, though, by the fact that Leonard Bernstein agreed with me.
>He said, paraphrased, that the "rediscovery" of Nielsen in the '60s was,
>he thought, a big mistake.
Never heard that one. Still, he made two fine recordings of the Third
and Fifth Symphonies, though I seem to recall a not so good Fourth, but
maybe I'm imagining it.
Roger Hecht
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