Those who understand, unlike Mr. Newberry, that one can indeed come to
a more than adequate comprehension of a piece of music by repeated and
attentive listening to one or a number of recorded performances, will
wisely ignore his stupid and silly comment about the musician in the
world of the consumer.  Those who take his comment more seriously than it
deserves can find a score of Strong's 2nd symphony in g minor op.  50 (op.
59 there) "Sintram" at New York Public Library research library (currently
Mid-Manhattan Library at 55th street until sometime in 2000) or at the
Library of Congress (where it is op.  50).  There have been at least 2
recordings of the work, one in the Preservation of Musical Heritage (I
think) series under Karl Krueger around 1967, and one in this latest-
and most welcome- Naxos series.

In some cases, of course, one has no choice .but. to learn a work from
a recording; many film scroes, for instance, where the scores (some of
considerable value, as with Rozsa's, Alwyn's, or Frankel's contributions)
are permanently lost, or Benjamin Frankel's "The Isle is Full of Noises",
audible in a BBC broadcast but whose score is lost forever (perhaps
reconstructible, I suppose, to within epsilon as they might say in my
old field- or perhaps not.)

Eric Schissel
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