Dan Schmidt with an MIT perspective writes:

>Listening to Beethoven in 1999 is fundamentally a different act from
>listening to Beethoven in 1820.

How do you know?

Here are the possible alternatives that a scientist might consider:

1. Music is a universal language
2. Everyone hears music differently over space as well time
3. In 200 years, somebody's been messing around with Beethoven
4. The Cabots speak only to the Lodges, the Lodges to God and God to
the boys in the MIT labs

Andy Carlan