Ian Crisp wrote: >As previously announced, I propose that this time we vote for the most >definitively twentieth-century pieces of classical music. An impossible task. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring. Is there a single list this wouldn't be on? Seminal. Debussy: La Mer (Impressionism. So often I find myself comparing some 20th century work to Debussy, and I'd say this is his best konwn work.) Mahler: Symphony 9 (To me the link between the 19th and 20th centuries) Vaughan-Williams: Symphony 5 (There was a lot of quiet music written this century, and this epitomizes it as well as any.) Schoenberg-Five Pieces for Orchestra or Pierrot Lunaire (Impossible to avoid Schoenberg.) Yes, I'm orchestrally oriented. Roger Hecht