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From: elf@utcsrgv.UUCP (Eugene Fiume)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Bach underrated?
Message-ID: <3078@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 11:16:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 11:16:49 1984
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My snipe was not directed at anyone in particular, since I usually forget
who says what.  I was trying to point out that it is much more fun hearing
\fIwhy\fR someone's music (or that "someone") is great than hearing that a
a person on the net thinks that composer X had an IQ so large that even a
number with as many digits as there are grains of sand couldn't hold it.
In the former category, I would put oscar's excellent article on Mahler
and the follow-ups.  In the latter, I would put all of these "best of the
year" things;  however, all you have to do to make even these interesting
is put a little thought behind the opinions.  If that means 148-line news
articles, fine.  Me?  I haven't time to compose 148-line articles.  But I
am very happy some people have chosen to, because it has been good reading.

Eugene Fiume
U of Toronto
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