James Tobin ([log in to unmask]) wrote: Deryk Barker refers to Gorecki's Third as: > >>...that godawful symphony. > >I understand the hostility of Boulez, who called this a work for "cleaning >ladies," and the feelings of Doug Purl, who once expressed his distress at >the patriotic/religious content of the Polish texts, but, although I should >know better where Deryk is coming from aesthetically I don't. Why the >hostility? I found it deeply boring. My hostility is doubtless due to its all-persaveness (now thankfully abated). Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]