Prof. Bernard Chasan replies [about Mahler's Ninth]: >>What kind of parody are we going to perceive in a work which musical >>history, by those times, had overpassed?". > >So why does the Ninth Symphony still live? Why do many of us still >value it and listen to it? Well, a good question: simply because it's one of the greatest symphonies ever written. I was tryng to say that its values as a "sociological" or "historical" document of its times are very limited, compared to another contemporary works. >Perhaps music is not identical with sociology That's exactly my point. Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]