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Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:55:49 -0500
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Wes Crone wrote:

>I would like to toss in something a little different than my fellow list
>members.  I vote for Holst's "The Planets" suite.  ...  It seems like a
>good representative of the technology age and the 20th century pursuit
>into human importance and our place in the larger scope of things.  ...
>
>Hey, are those giggles I'm hearing?

No.  I like this idea.  I think he's on to something I was aiming at when
I chose Vaughan-Williams Fifth Symphony.  Can I change that to Planets? I
think a *lot* of 20th century music was influeced by this piece.

Roger Hecht

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