>>Did you mean the 20th or 21st? I could not disagree more.
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>Both.
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>Maybe I should have excluded Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky who wrote in the early 20th century.
>Their music might be too schmaltzy for future generations, but I like it.
>I used to think that Gershwin had a chance, but the more I listen, the less I think that.
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>Yes, I suspect that I won't find much agreement on that. Sometimes I think I should have lived during the 19th century.
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>It's funny though. Since they've been toddlers my two now-teen grandsons have hung out in my den after school while waiting for their parents to pick them up. I have a good collection of classical and folk CD's there. With no urging from me, they've loaded many onto their IPod's and become fans of Van Cliburn, James Galway and Pete Seeger, in addition to whatever rock groups they follow.
Proves (again) the old adage “children watch/follow what you do; not what you say”
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
