David Stewart tempts us: >Anyone like to recommend a drink for their favourite composer? How tempting! (Of course, the above could be misconstrued...I'd love to by Shostakovich a drink.) Mussorgsky, of course, should be listened to while drinking as much vodka as possible. I don't know many willing to enter this composer's world to that extent, though. I bet it'd be rewarding, if slightly disorienting. And I reckon that if you could get your hands on some absinthe (not in this country!!) you could have a great time with Debussy. IIRC some Russian composer wrote a symphonic poem called "Hashish", early 20th century. But I can't find it now, and I've never heard it. Anyone? And I always figured Cage would be more meaningful under the correct 'influences'. Hmm...A drink for Cage? Perhaps a single cherry blossom, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat? (Or is that for Satie?) Don Satz, on Keith Jarrett's Bach (and a related subject): >It's definitely a WTC for the illicit drug crowd. Yes, I had a great experience in college (in that crowd, so to speak) with the St. Matthew Passion. I'm not huge into Jarrett's CM, but I'll take this as a glowing reccomendation. Oh, crap, are those my true colors I see slipping out? I'll see if I can reconceal them... Bob K., slightly hungover