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From: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 09:01:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 09:01:24 1985
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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.