I know that there are several modern-music lovers on this list, and so was wondering if there was anyone else besides me who thinks that Leif Segerstam is a neglected great composer. I first became interested in him in the early 1970s when those strange but marvelous BIS LPs came out, with his string quartets, piano duos, the tone-poem "Patria" (which I heard him conduct live with the Cincinnati Symphony in the late 1970s), the wind quintet "A Noooooooowwww," the violin concerto, etc. The last releases I have of his own music are a couple of BIS CDs of his symphonies. I know he has made his career primarily as a conductor--in addition to the CSO concert, I also heard him conduct a gorgeous "La Boheme" at the Met with Pavarotti (when I got his autograph)--but wondered if any other listers share my enthusiasm for his meterless, flowing, melting-clock style of composition, not to mention the strange emotional aura it creates. (I particularly enjoy listening to the last movement of his Quartet in memory of Gustav Mahler in the dark...it creates an aural atmosphere that is palpable to me.) Sheila