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