Joseph Sowa wrote in response to me: >>How about a few postings of composers you appreciate? How about >>Howard Hanson? > >I'm completely amazed that you'd guess on the first try that I like >Howard Hanson. Well, I just went to the Archives and read Joseph's recent postings in sucession (3 of them). I treated them as a "coherent whole", as if it was a three-movement symphony, and Howard Hanson's name popped up. Sorry, I can't reveal the source of my powers. >I bet you'd never have guessed I like Selim Palmgren, too. You would have lost that bet (I'm very competitive). I made no assumption that Joseph was unaware of relatively obscure composers whose music would likely be within his "preferred zone". I do assume that he's a man with much to offer. >>Of Joseph's three recent postings, two have been of the "bashing" >>variety. > >BTW, can't that comment be taken as bashing as well? To me, bashing is a word and process signifying "criticism without respect". I'd appreciate Joseph thinking on this a little: doesn't stating that a composer's music is mono-emotional signify disrespect for the composer? If you can't go that far, could you agree that many readers might well take it as disrespect? Don Satz [log in to unmask]