An article in the NY Times today (2/28) asks who were the giants of 20th
century composition? The writer, David Schiff, then offers a shortlist of
them (although admitting it is glaringly incomplete).

Who, according to Schiff, were the giants of all the musical giants?

Richard Strauss

The Tunesmiths (Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter,
Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen)

Louis Armstrong

Dmitri Shostakovich

Arnold Schoenberg

Igor Stravinsky

Any comments? Bear in mind Schiff is testing some critical values for a
musical culture that has broken down the old barriers between high art and
low, and between performance and composition.

John Dalmas
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