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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems
Message-ID: <336@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 01:04:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 01:04:27 1985
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In article <1239@teddy.UUCP> rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce) writes:
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> 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 sauppose we could also talk about the music of Mahler...

Music that has little or nothing to say, but spends hours doing it anyway.