Donald Clarke wrote, in response to me:

>> ...Ross ignores many of the composers I most care about--
>> ones who express feelings, for instance--
>
> Starting from the beginning, I am only on page 29 of a book of nearly
> 550 pages, and I have already read about about Strauss, Mahler, Wagner
> and Puccini.  These are composers who do not express feelings?

Point taken, but these composers are sort of a prelude to the main story,
and I was thinking more of later time periods.  When you finish this
intensely interesting and indeed worthwhile book I think you may find
that it is not really balanced.  At any rate, what I was trying to get
at was Ross' own aesthetic preferences, which have to be inferred by his
emphases.  Like the good journalist he is, he does not express these
openly.

Jim Tobin

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