Re: $64,000 question

I can identify with Kraig Grady's experience of
minor music's having an uplifting effect at times.
If I am not in an energetic exuberant mood, I find the more
somber music more agreeable to listen to - as
though the people making it were closer to being
on the same wavelength as I. I think that even
if one is passively listening to music by oneself,
one feels that the music is making certain demands
on one's mind to "go along with it". Sometimes
less exciting, less powerful and brilliantly
constructed music may be better suited to carry
one along with it according to one's mood then.

There's a CD - Lyrichord Early Music Series 8010
containing two three-part sung masses by J. Ockeghem.
Both of these (one quite different from the other
harmonically) have a rather spare sound which I find
very soothing to listen to at times. They seem to
leave one to be as one is, while still being "present" -
the sound of constructive human thought and activity
and not a vacuum.

On an item of personal news, I plan to work with
a pianist and others at Florida State University,
Tallahassee to produce a CD(s) bringing the sounds
of the differently tuned piano to a larger
audience in a careful professional way. I'll be
leaving the San Diego area June 10th or shortly
thereafter.

Dave Hill, La Mesa, CA