Re: musical genres

[I. Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Eliezer Kaplan wrote:

> if I decide that I hate modern classical on the basis
> of John Cage (not me personally)

How could one hate a complete genre on account of a
negative experience with only one piece of music, or
even one composer?

Just because you do not like "Elias" by Mendelssohn,
does not imply that you also won't like the 'Organ'
Symphony by Saint-Saens!

> then I can assume the Bernstein will be similar?
No!


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