Tuesdays are turning out to be a horrifically busy day for me.  I'll try to post more later.

In the mean time, I've got to ask, those folks who whine and complain about "modern music" being forced on them.  Is there any other segment of the musical audience who don't realize that if they don't like something they don't have to listen to it?    Especially with classical music which you have to make an effort to hear, to start with.  It's not forced on you whenever you turn on the radio, whenever you go somewhere with piped-in music like pop music is.  Just how stupid do you have to be to go to Youtube to whine that someone apparently forced you to go there and forced you to listen to Pierre Boulez's Repons.   Of course they're pretending about the whole thing.  Other than the vulgar appropriation of classical music in advertising and movie sound tracks, all classical music listening is entirely voluntary.  Apparently it's something these boys (most of them seem to be male) believe makes them look smart, to claim stuff like that. No, it only shows they don't have the intelligence of a dog which will avoid hearing what they don't like.