During the past three days, when driving around I've been listening to Zemlinsky's 2nd and 3rd string quartets on Koch. Albuquerque's a relatively serene and sunny town, definitely not the right location for these Zemlinsky quartets which I find bleak, angry, and bespeaking evil in the extreme. While driving it seemed to me that this was perfect music for a post-nuclear blast drive through the old home town: bodies burning and decaying with the stench of death, disease, and contamination all around. Is there any music which you would consider just right for the occassion? Sorry about the morose subject, but some music is much more effective when conjuring up horrible events and their aftermath. Don Satz [log in to unmask]