Bill Pirkle ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >I was referring to my personal opinion of the modern stuff as being >interesting but not profound. Is it OK with you that I describe music that >I like as profound and other music as interesting [to me]? - Webster >PROFOUND 1) having intellectual depth and insight 2) difficult to fathom or >understand 3) extending far below the surface. Gee, I'd love to agree with you, but just last Wedbesday I attended a performance of Shostakovich's 8th quartet. As profound as anything I know. >Curiously, I find far more expressions of love in 19th century music than >the 20th, Maybe you've just been listening to the wrong 20th century music? >and I would want to be stuck on a desert island with the 19th, >that and the world's greatest shipbuilder. Unfortunately Isambard Kingdom Brunel is dead...:-) Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]