John Smyth: >It has been necessary to move on. Maybe modern music will slowly lend >itself to new associations, though as I write this I wonder: If earlier >music was borne out of the rhythms of body movement and speech patterns >and inflextion, can Modern music, which eschews everything inherently >"human," (no scarcasm here), ever be associative? If one wants it to be? As ever, I can point to modern composers who want to communicate, who have created such associations, who want to and have added to human experience. I don't reject John's "eschews everything inherently 'human'" as sarcastic, but as inaccurate. It's a stereotype based on a tiny sliver of modern and contemporary music. It paints with way too broad a brush. It's what one used to hear about Picasso. What such people made of "Guernica" I have no idea. Steve Schwartz