Subject: any good compositions after 1950?

C'mon, Neil!

{you wrote...}
> Yikes...so is there any music after 1950 that compares to the 3 B's?
>I find that attitude incredibly elitist/narrow, and stupid, but typical
>of the "classical" snots who, hopefully, are less and less part of the
>music scene today.

You've gone here before, and it's too bad, because you don't need to cop the attitude. I spend the better part of my working days with orchestra and opera musicians, and while the pin-headed attitudes that you speak of exist in spades, it certainly doesn't help to have someone from the populist/world music circle (such as yourself) exhibit the same kind of behavior in the other direction. I don't know how many others around here feel the same way about music, but I find value in so very many of the worlds musical cultures, including and outside of Western classical music. I try to not shut *any* doors, and I value the contributions of the 'educated' and 'folk' musician alike.

Case in point: my favorite birthday presents recently? Toss-up between the complete Shostakovich string quartets (Emerson Qtet) and the Buddah Records reissue of Woodie Guthrie's "Dust Bowl Ballads".

But then again, my Razor scooter rules...

Chilling,
Jon