I wrote: >Ives amalgamated all of these transitional European composers, Brahms, >Dvorak, Bruckner and Dvorak into an entirely new American form of distinct >composition, analogous to what the Abstract Expressionists accomplished >in the mid-20th century world of painting? Errata: I meant to include Mendelssohn, rather than repeating Dvorak, in my recent post. Rosemary