Deryk: >While recalling Keith Emerson's philistinism, let us note forget his >previous band, The Nice, who did a hatchet job on the Third Brandbenburg >and also brought us America, from West Side Story, in 4/4.... One of my favorite semi-obscure rock bands of the Sixties and Seventies, The New York Rock (nee Rock and Roll) Ensemble, took off from one of the Brandenburgs. It began with a decent arrangement of Bach (three of the members were Juilliard grads or at least attended - two played oboe, one played cello) and then dismembered it in three big steps. Steve Schwartz