Stephen Heersinck wrote:

>I think "propulsion" is precisely the problem, which often translates,
>for me at least, into boredom.

I've often wondered why so many people who insist that Brahms is somehow or
other a continuatin of Beethoven usually gloss over the fact that it was
Bruckner and not Brahms who took the energy of the Beethoven scherzos to
knew heights and often blazing splendor.

Aaron J. Rabushka
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