Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems Message-ID: <5691@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:08:28 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.5691 Posted: Tue Sep 17 04:08:28 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 04:51:29 EDT References: <730@charm.UUCP> <1062@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <392@scgvaxd.UUCP> <1239@teddy.UUCP> <336@gymble.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 16 > In article <1239@teddy.UUCP> rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce) 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 sauppose 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 "Why do you hate this quote?"