Jeff Dunn wrote: >I am writing now not about the bright lights of success, the shining >glories of a life, but the bitter end. I am speaking of the moments of >sad summation, when one looks back--or imagines oneself looking back--at >a life of promise incomplete. Three works which are guaranteed to cure all optimism everywhere: * Ninth Symphony by Malcolm Arnold - Lento (fourth movement). The last - & most despairing - of Arnold's Waste Land pastorales. * First Symphony by ZHU Jian'er -!? (third movement). A disjointed nightmare in sound, from ZHU's Cultural Revolution symphony. * Canto General by Mikis Theodorakis - America Insurrecta (finale). A lament for an American Revolution that never took place. Razor blades available on request.... Live in peace [log in to unmask] endeavour2 project <http://www.geocities.com/robtclements/endeavour2.html>