"John G. Deacon" wrote: >...what it is that I find so irritating about the opening of the Janacek >Sinfonietta.... > >Well try these: raucous, whingeing/whining, repetitive, grating and lacks >originality (in the sense that it is the kind of cliche'd musical sounds >one might hear from a child shrieking out in the playground).... This sounds like something one might find in Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical Invective. What I have learned is that there is no resonance between you and this piece (or this opening, since I'm not sure whether the REST of the work pleases you)--it is vibrating at an A but you are tuned to a B flat. Chris Bonds