Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwrdc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!trwrdc!frith From: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems Message-ID: <1087@trwrdc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 09:01:24 EST Article-I.D.: trwrdc.1087 Posted: Fri Nov 1 09:01:24 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 14:47:47 EST References: <730@charm.UUCP> <1062@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith) Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA. Lines: 16 In article <611@spar.UUCP> ellis@max.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes: >> >> Wagner's music GOES someplace. Mahler just seems to meander about >> endlessly! - Lord Frith > > Obviously then, either you or Mahler is lacking in sensitivity. > Personally, I'm quite certain that the fault is not Mahler's. > > Perhaps you should listen to less demanding music. May I suggest > Wellington's Victory, Pachelbel's Kanon, or Olivia Newton John? Should > they be too much for you, you might consider selling your stereo and > spending more time with the Muzak at McDonald's. Tsk tsk... now look who's lacking in sensitivity. I'm not the only one with this view. Musicologists with far more experience and sensitivity than I have expressed these same misgivings with Mahler's music.