Steve Schwartz wrote: >... The question that now comes up is how distorted is our view of >music in general, let alone American music, since a lot of really good >music and many wonderful composers aren't recorded at all? Is it a >matter of simply making the picture we already have clearer, or are >we looking at substantially different picture? I wouldn't say our view is distorted. Myopic is the word that comes to mind. It is so myopic, that we have no sense of the entire picture. A correspondant of mine does much of his research on concerted works for piano and orchestra. As I recall his list currently includes about 12,000 pieces. Ok, how many can any of us name... Karl