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From: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 18:40:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 18:40:21 1985
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In article <5691@tekecs.UUCP> jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>>>
>>> When I was studying Baroque organ, I expressed to my teacher my fondness
>>> of Sibelius. His comment was that Sibelius is ok, as long as you like
>>> music searching desperately for a theme.
>> 
>> And I suppose we could also talk about the music of Mahler...
>> 
>> Music that has little or nothing to say, but spends hours doing it anyway.
>
> There are none so deaf as those who will not listen...
>
> Maybe you should learn the language!
>
>					Jeff Winslow

Now now now.... let's not be judgmental!  I spent a year and a half
studying the Mahler symphonies... so you see I HAVE listened.  Too
often it's just one theme after the other... on and on and on and...
He could have said everything he wanted to have said in half the time.
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