Donald Satz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The only thing about David Schiff's list that I found odd was his inclusion
>of the tunesmiths(Gershwin, Kern, etc.).  I find those composers and their
>music without any appeal to me.

I'd include Gershwin, I think, because he is perhaps the only composer to
be wholly sucessful in both the popular and "serious" veins.  (First person
to counter with Paul McCartney loses 100 points).

>If non-classical composers are eligible,
>I would include Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson.

Nicely said.  So there's two of us who know who Richard Thompson is...:-)

Deryk Barker
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