Steve Schwartz says that he >... tended to like only bits and pieces of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, >Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, and Brahms. I simply didn't care for the >idiom. I found it bland and predictable at first. Well, there are times when bland and predictable are just what is needed. When I come home from a hard day's work there is nothing I like more than to relax while listening to the Grosse Fugue, or maybe the Hammerklavier. Bernard Chasan