Smyth writes:

> It's my feeling that greatness finds a way out regardless of politics or
> personality traits--maybe not today, or tomorrow, but somewhere down the
> road.

"That is decided by spirits much farther down in the lowerarchy than you
and I." an archdevil to his nephew in *The Screwtape Letters*

As for how you present your works and too whom - everyone must find their
own way.  Many of Mendelssohn and Schubert's finest works were performed
by pick up groups, and given the quality of playing described by outside
observers - Hadyn's sublime symponies were often in none to accomplished
hands.  Bach wrote for local singers and players and so on.  Writing well
for amateurs is far harder than writing badly for virtuosi...

Stirling Newberry