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Beatrice, You have great taste and are as ignorant of the names of individual compositions as I. Ricard Strauss composed the fabulous orchestral scores that later became the musical underpinnings and only lasting glue of Stanley Kubrick's " 2001 Space Odyssey". Name those tunes ? If your friend plays Chopin as you described, record the SOB on the best recording system you can find, keep the digitalis handy just in case and please, please send us a copy when he's done. Your friend may have a touch of the musical oracle. I've never heard of the old latin music / Bernstein connection before but I wouldn't be surprised. Last week I dove into researching Mariachi band instruments and what I found is far more than I expected. It's a whole other world pushing around the same notes. Leonard may have recognised this decades ago and made broad pop use of it. Bartok managed to bring the rythmns of the Horo (ne: Hora) out of the Balkans and yes he had energy but I can think of only one first movement of one piano concerto that I really liked....it's played almost exclusively with the left hand and is more fluid and melodic than any of his other compositions I have heard. Please bear in mind my wife played a half hour of Bartok before breakfast...each morning ...and I had to listen to every note I'm glad you mention Kodalli. I don't know which of us is doing a worse job of spelling his name but if you find the proper spelling please send it along so we'll all know. I tend to go phonetic and in that vein it's best spelled Kodai. Please forgive me any transgressions here. Bea : to wind up : I am not a music buff. I love to play. I love to sing. I'm not very good at either but my hearing has been good since birth...have I mentioned the Tchaikowski '78's and 33 1/3 rds I listened to from crib to kindergarten ? Now I feel bad for leaving Petr Illich Tchaikowski off my fav list but I'm happy if I was able to enlighten you about Scott Joplin. Yeah, and I do Stardust too. It's a fav exemplar. What's more I get real pissed when I hear some idiot skip the first 16 bars and makes believe the intro doesn't exist. The Stardust intro is a classic unto itself...with that I'll shut up and let you make your own mistakes... Pax, Chas
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