Writes Keith Gerling: >The contributors here possess a wealth of information, regarding >performers AND obscure (as well as popular) works. But I continue to be >perplexed by the lack of interest in contemporary music. Are there any >Morton Feldman fans here? How about Alan Lucier? I have tried Feldman and I have problems with the repetitiveness and the snail like pace. So I am not a fan. Lucier I do not know. But I DO know Schnittke, Gubadalina, Rzewski, Norgard, Lindberg, Maw, Tsontakis, Rautawara, Lutloslawski, Rouse, Adams, Glass, Boulez, Messiaen, Dutellieux, Carter, just to name a few. (I will admit I don't know how to SPELL them all!) Most are still alive, some recently departed. I think that I am more or less typical of the people on this list. Some are not attracted to what they characterize as "experimental" music, but there is enough diversity in contemporary music to satisfy anybody, or so I believe. I suspect that my list is by some criteria rather conservative. A recent article in the Sunday NY Times by Paul Griffith named Kurtag and Heinz Holliger as the best of the nineties. I don't know Holliger as a composer at all, and what I have heard of Kurtag does not appeal to me. These composers will manage to survive my lack of enthusiasm which is a changeable thing in any case. I have more than once played a contemporary cd which I regretted buying after the first playing and which on second hearing, sometimes long delayed, sounded great. Professor Bernard Chasan Physics Department, Boston University