Bernard Chasan:
>I nominate "The Lark Ascending" as the most beautiful of RVW's works,
>and one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever. Not the most
>expressive, not the deepest, but the most beautiful.
Since you put it this way, I'll second the motion.
But I would not change a note in RVW's Oboe Concerto, or Hodie either.
I'm afraid I have always found "Serenade to Music" TOO pretty, but I
find the instrumental version preferable to the choral.
Jim Tobin