Satoshi Akima wrote: >it is still preferable to start somewhere easier rather than to >dive into the deep end of 20th century music. I'm curious to know if anyone here has, or knows someone who has, come to appreciate 20th-century atonal, pantonal, serial, etc. music in vacuo, i.e. in relative unfamiliarity with the music of earlier centuries. I doubt it, but it's possible. Chris Bonds