Concerning David Wright's views, Felix Delbrueck writes:

>his article exposes that fundamentally our views on art are nakedly
>subjective, and this sort of pompous claim to objectivity and reason
>is in my view dishonest, not to mention bloody irritating.

Felix is on target.  Just to take one small example, to characterize
Schubert's Wintereise song cycle as gem-like is so nutty that it is hard to
respond to.  Does this guy really LIKE music? And why this new fashion of
spending time and energy knocking great composers off their pedestals? I am
much more interested in what my fellow listers and others LIKE - or LOVE.

Bernard Chasan