Karl Miller wrote: > I would suggest an experiment. > Try taking a work like that piece of Kirchner. Listen to it repeatedly > to the point where you can tell in your mind what note will come next. > While I cannot promise that you will find beauty, I sense that your mind > will find, on some level, drama and expression and, I hope, great meaning. I have often wanted to talk somebody, say, who doesn't think there's anything in 'classical' music, into listening over and over again to, say, a Beethoven string quartet, perhaps Op. 74, until they know it really well. It'll either change that person's life, or he/she may as well listen to Yanni forever, for he or she isn't really musical at all. Probably the same would apply to a lot of 'atonal' music. You have to be willing to work at it, and if you don't want to, it's your loss. Donald Clarke *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html