cdh@ptsfc.UUCP (Chris Harvey) (04/23/85)
Believe it or not, not one selection was chosen more than twice. There were 11 pieces chosen twice, the others all appeared only once. Soooooo, I decided to tally by composer instead. Each time a composer's piece was mentioned, I gave him a tally. I included duplicates, as well. 21 composers were mentioned only once. They are: Scriabin, Crumb, Bartok, Glass, Riley, Vivaldi, Debussy, Clarke, Rodrigo, Dufay, Granados, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Stravinsky, Ysaye, Dvorak, Pachelbel, Rimsy-Korsakov, Sibelius, Berlioz, and Rachmaninoff 6 composers were mentioned twice. They are: Barber, Faure', Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Elgar 3 were mentioned three times. Thay are: Handel, Schubert, and Williams Now it gets a little more selective. Sitting alone as the only composer chosen 4 times by the net is: Shostakovitch This leaves us with the Net's Big Four. They were chosen 8, 9, 11, and THIRTEEN times, respectively. Obviously the pick of the net. Chosen 8 times: Gustav Mahler Squeezing by Mahler by one vote, the winner of this year's Oscar: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (WAM to his friends) Two ahead of WAM, and only 2 from the top: J. S. Bach The big winner, the most popular inspirational composer on the net, with a grand total of 13 different mentions: Ludwig von Beethoven Suprised? I was, a little. There were quite a few not mentioned. But overall, I feel that the poll served its purpose. I now have a new list to take with me the the record store! Thanks again. -- Chris Harvey,Pac Bell,SF ============================================================ "Joke 'em if they can't take a .... " (dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!cdh)
dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne Perry) (04/29/85)
[] I am not sure of the accuracy of your counts, since Bernstein was mentioned once (by me) and he does not appear at all. I seem to recall Brahms being mentioned more than twice as well. On the other hand, it doesn't matter much anyway - Dewayne