Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!Paul TanenbaumFrom: Paul Tanenbaum Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Pretty music Message-ID: <5523@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 08:14:13 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5523 Posted: Wed Oct 31 08:14:13 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 05:24:07 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 7 To Larry Ciesla: I know this is a tired response, but Beethoven, Verdi, and Stravinsky (and probably everybody else except Pat Boone) were all accused by their contemporaries of creating noisy garbage unbearable to human ears. Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with your point... But pleasantness IS quite subjective, so I wouldn't be surprised if a hundred years from now the prevailing wisdom were that Jackson Pollack had painted something pretty!