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Interesting, I did not recall his name but I have heard some of George Walker's work.  Very, VERY respectable.  I'll be getting his work...I am quite unfamiliar with him.

Bernstein, yes, certainly one of our finest conductors and he certainly had a brilliant understanding of music.  I have recently detected some Glenn Gould influences in some of Bernstein's concerts.  I realized this, actually, in a dream I had of Gould playing the third movement (Menuetto: Allegreto, Trio) of Mozart's 40th Symphony on an organ.  It was brilliantly transcribed, if I do say so myself.  Damn, I wish I could have recorded it!  I played Bernstein and the Wiener Philharmoniker 1985 performance shortly afterward and first noticed the Gouldian influences throughout all but the first movement (where Gould may have played with the apostrophes that he did with Mozart's #11 Sonata in A Minor...only to a lesser extent).  That was quite an experience.

Frank Zappa...I have never heard his "stuff" except for a couple of seconds just now on Amazon's music sampler.  To preserve my love of Gershwin's Rhapsody, I will stay away from that crap.  I would choose rap over that if I were forced to choose.

Thanks to you and Clark for awakening me to Walker.
LBJ

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