Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/26/87)
Really-From: charettep@nusc-wpn > From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu > ... > To give |>oug's point its due, a Brahms symphony's > huge, masterful complexity is limited first BY his (by contemporary > standards) sonically limited range of sounds; and second, TO his > own essentially traditional language of notation; so that, insofar > as variety of sounds goes, Kate's recent music may have some kind > of edge, but in most other respects, Brahms has not been seriously > threatened by Bush -- YET. > ... > Still, it's an impossible comparison; > for who can say that Brahms's muse was "greater" than Kate's is, in > the end? Especially since it's only the beginning, for Kate. > To all of the above: Precisely what I was getting at. I guess there is no disagreement here, just misunderstanding ... Paul "Look ... If I went 'round claimin' that I was emperor because some watery tart lobbed a schimitar at me, they'd put me away! Some water-logged wench distributing swords isn't a basis for a system of government. Supreme autocratic power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony." Roughly quoted (from memory) from M. Python's "Holy Grail" ------