Thank you. I’ve been watching them live (well, broadcast), and I usually get a copy of the DVD from my B-i-L as a Xmas present (it’s cool to have connections!).

- Jack

Depends on who the conductor is. The San Francisco Symphony and Metallica did a joint concert a few years ago that was sold out and got new crossover fans for both genres.

- Jack

Would it destroy your world view if I told you that Holst was a fan of astrology, not astronomy, and that he wrote “The Planets” according to their astrological “personalities”?

- Jack

I’ve got to applaud you for showing that kind of range. The analogous movie taste would be teeny-bopper (Twilight) and David Lynch films.

Jack, you may like to know that the Keeping Score episodes are being streamed by PBS Video at http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=Keeping+Score. Hopefully, the Shostakovich will be among them.

ABBA and Shostakovich… intriguing combination there.

I hate to tell you but I don’t think they ever have or ever will play together in combo somehow!

Yeah, quick! Redress the balance – tell the world you’re a Wagner fan!

(Hmm .. the Jews here may not like that ‘un. Hitler’s fave composer, works banned in Israel & all. Oh well.)

PS. Actually, I always figured you for a Gustav Holst fan. Ever heard The Planets suite?

PPS. Like what the right wingers “think” matters? Nah it doesn’t.