Steve Schwartz replies to my speech about Cage v. Bach:

>Generally speaking, I would much
>prefer to hear about an aleatoric piece (or even to perform one) than to
>actually listen to one.

Me too.  And therein lies the rub.

I think that we're not saying anything that different.  We're both (it
seems to me) slightly misreading one another in our (careless) blanket
statements.  Maybe losing a little in the electronic translation? Alas.
Fie!

Bob K.