Julio Ponce de Leon wrote:

>perhaps I do not have a problem with my "mind" but
>rather it is the music that has a problem.

Just one quick comment here for the contemporary music thread: not all
that glitters is gold.  By that I mean that listeners need to keep in
mind that, same as any other field of endeavor, there is an awful lot
of awful music that gets written and performed.  There always has been,
really; it's just that the bulk of the crap from times past (along with
some good stuff as well) has long since disappeared into the mists of
obscurity.  We are left with only the best of the best from centuries
past.

New music lacks the filter of the ages.  What will endure from the 21st
century?  Who can say?

This is not to encourage anyone to ignore new music for fear of getting
an earful of crap.  Personally, I'd much rather sit through an evening
of new stuff that I ended up not really liking than hearing another
tiresome Brahms symphony.  Again.  Any day of the week.

Greg Sigman, Senior Library Associate
Ohio University Music/Dance Library
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