Bernard Gregoire: >>Countless classic motion pictures are a result of successful >>collaboration. ... It may be that music is impossible is impossible >>to write by committee but many other artistic endeavors and defiantly >>scientific and technological efforts can benefit from inspired >>collaboration. Don: >Music can and has been written through collaboration/committee. The basic >point I'm trying to make is that when a particular "creative effort" is >viable through either "solo" or "group" means, the superior approach is >to "do it alone." I believe that history supports that view. What is the famous collaborative piece by Les Six? Is it "Les Maries de Tower Eiffel?" Is anyone familliar with this piece? I believe each of them wrote 1 movement? Is this useful to this collaboration discussion? Can one have a paragraph made entirely of questions? Bob K.