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OK. Here's the deal. JHC, I do not have enough time to devote to your suggestion on the baroque thread that I upload bits and pieces of my collection to a filesharing site. That is true. And even if I did, what you'd get would simply be bits and pieces of my collection, not necessarily what...

In the Piston thread, Ouled Nails mentioned Sessions, in particular the third symphony. I just received a CD of Sessions' symphonies 1, 2, and 3 in the mail yesterday, and have listened to the third symphony. It's a charming and ebullient work, with a shortish opening movement, a scherzo-like...

And Elliott Carter was born on December 11, 1908. Since he's still very much alive, he'll be celebrating his birthday, too. (Hector Berlioz was also bor)n on December 11. In 1803. I was in his birth town, La Côte-Saint-André, in 2003. In his birth room in his parent's house, actually. That was...

I was recently confronted with the realization that I know next to nothing about recent Danish music. I have almost all of Holmboe (though he's hardly recent) and Nørgård. I have a couple of things by Poul Ruders. I saw Abrahamsen's name on Amazon a few minutes ago, but I've not heard any of his...

On another forum, now defunct, someone asked about Frank Zappa's classical music. I don't think there's a causal relationship between the asking and the defunctness. I hope not, anyway. At the time, I was not familiar with anything except what the Mothers of Invention did. That, I thought, was...