Ray Bayles writes, anent Melinda Wagner's just-announced Pulitzer:
>These Music Pulitzers are often a surprise to me... though they
>tend to grow on me after a couple of dozen listens...
My experience is that competently made music - not necessarily
prize-winning or well-known - tends to grow on one with many repeated
hearings simply from the sheer familiarity. For instance, I'm now
listening, as I write this, to Erwin Schulhoff's Suite for Orchestra, Op.
37. It's probably not great music, but somehow it's won me over. This is
about my fifth time through it and I keep finding things to exclaim over.
And meanwhile it's becoming like an old friend.
So much music, so little time.
Scott Morrison