Donald Satz: >A "consensus" can not prove greatness; it can only confer greatness. What it shows is that many listeners agree that they intensely admire a work or a composer and are willing to say so in the highest terms. (Presumably they all have their reasons, which I think would prove to be a combination of work-centered and self-centered reasons.) Perhaps this is sufficient for someone or some work to be called great. Maybe this is mainly what "greatness" means. Jim