Christopher Webber ([log in to unmask]) wrote: ... >Give Glass a break! It's at least possible that his work points the >way to a breaking of the Gordian Knot in which "classical music" seems >determined to strangle itself. Fifty seven million sales at least should >give us pause for thought - modified rapture, rather than ammunition for >an execution. My problem with Glass, well problems I suppose, are firstly his ultimately uninteristing compositional method and secondly the fact that his popularity overshadows other (IMHO) better "minimalist" composers, such as Riley and Reich. deryk barker ([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)