Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >I, for one, don't believe any of it, and in the 40 years I've been hearing >such claims, never did. I know Dave isn't accusing me of believing the >stuff. Yet I want to go on record. I don't care whether another Beethoven >is among us, because I probably wouldn't recognize this music as that >important anyway. I, too, deny Christ. As far as I'm concerned, *any* >music written in my time is of my time. As Edgard Varese remarked (as closely as I can recall): no artist is ahead of his time; most people are years behind theirs. >If someone cares to write in the style of Mozart, that's part of my time >(and probably, as a cultural phenomenon if nothing else, a fairly >interesting part). I'm sure you're familiar with Borges' "Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote"? Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]