[left that other site]

Yes...that is the impression I got.

But I guess I am spoiled ROTTON!
LOL!

I do appreciate your presentaion of new music though, even if i am somewhat opinionated!

[Publius]

I've tried to make Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Leroy Anderson intelligible to modern audiences and to our troops. I may have given some of our troops a beautiful moment in their overseas lives, but to be honest, most people don't appreciate what these men did. Unless you've had the education or have taken the time to go into their work on your own, there is probably no purpose to further projects based on classical composers.

Prior to those projects, I did the various Brill Building composers, the British pop composers of the late Sixties, and songwriters such as Jimmy Webb, P. F. Sloan and Phil Ochs.

Until I get a real brainstorm for a serious composer, I'm going to fall back on the "Rockumentary" project I started in college. It's more mainstream, and I think it will appeal to a larger segment of our audience.

In the meantime, here is that Barber piece for baritone and string quartet from 1935, based on the Matthew Arnold poem.

Samuel Barber: "Dover Beach" w/Barber on vocals from a 1935 RCA recording

Samuel Barber: "Dover Beach" w/Fischer-Dieskau and the Julliard Quartet

This is a two-handkerchief piece. Both Arnold and Barber anticipated the horrors of the 20th Century's wars.