Jeffrey Hall writes:

>I don't consider this sacrilege.  I do not mean that one should _only_
>listen to a single movement of a work.  I am just saying that you need to
>start somewhere and if you can find a movement that you really like, then
>that may arouse your interest to listen to the work in its entirety.

Why not go further, in some compositions movements and ideas for them
occurred decades apart in time!  One can certainly listen to single
movements and not feel sacrilegious.

Norman Schwartz
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