Schoenberg

["Bob & Judy Williams" <prospero@netins.net>]

Kristen, you make me very sorry that I don't live in Toronto. If you 
should ever be so deluded as to come to Iowa, let me know and we will 
be delighted to have you.

I think that what we see is a reaction against Schoenberg as part of 
the backlash against academe and its fixation with atonal music. We 
have, in other words, yet to see Schoenberg as the composer pure and 
simple. I cheered for Mahler long before most music lovers saw him as 
anything but a pretentious and marginally talented composer so I'll 
risk another prediction: I think Schoenberg will be more important in 
the future than many whose position now seems secure.

Bob