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Subject: Music in SF (or, Notes From All Over)
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 14:44:27 EDT
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From: mooremj@EGLIN-VAX

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "A Work of Art" by James Blish.  It 
concerns the revivification, as a scientific experiment, of the composer
Richard Strauss in the year 2161.  The arts, especially music, are central
to the story.  It is probably the best thing Blish ever wrote and one of the
most moving stories I have ever read.  It was first published as "Art Work" in
the July '56 SF Stories; if you don't have a pile of 30-year-old magazines
around the house, it can be found in the Blish collections Galactic Cluster
and New Dreams This Morning, and in numerous anthologies. 

                                  marty moore (mooremj@eglin-vax.arpa)