Kevin Sutton wrote:

>...  Immediately everyone is thinking Stockhausen, Scoenberg and all
>the atonalists and experimenters.  Lest we forget, Puccini, Verdi, Elgar,
>Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Debussy, Dvorak, and Mahler all wrote music in the
>20th century.  I applaud the philidelphians for haveing the gust to do
>somethning interesting for a change!

Once again confirming how out of mainstream I am.  When I saw that list of
the Philadelphia choices I was depressed.  I thought to myself...leave it
to Philadelphia...with all of the avenues that could be explored in such
a series...and then to have chosen the path of least resistance...

Karl