Bob Draper wrote: >It does raise the question: how do the list members who love Bach yet >criticise Vivaldi justify their stance? It may raise the question in Bob's mind, but it doesn't in mine. I don't consider the question relevant. I love Bach's music, and I don't appreciate Vivaldi's music. In essence, I feel an intimate relationship with Bach's music, not with his opinions of the music of other composers or any other opinions or preferences he held. List members continue to trot out this "dead horse" of an argument, sometimes to bolster their liking of Vivaldi's music. I'm not buying it. I just go with what I hear. Bach's music and Vivaldi's are very different, and I see no inconsistency in liking the music of one but not the other. Don Satz [log in to unmask]