Steve Schwartz wrote:
>... The question that now comes up is how distorted is our view of
>music in general, let alone American music, since a lot of really good
>music and many wonderful composers aren't recorded at all? Is it a
>matter of simply making the picture we already have clearer, or are
>we looking at substantially different picture?
I wouldn't say our view is distorted. Myopic is the word that comes
to mind. It is so myopic, that we have no sense of the entire picture.
A correspondant of mine does much of his research on concerted works
for piano and orchestra. As I recall his list currently includes
about 12,000 pieces. Ok, how many can any of us name...
Karl