The other writing where I've felt that it truly caught something of what it would have meant to be there hearing it, was in the late Whitney Balliett's jazz columns (mostly in The New Yorker). Great stuff. Doug On 22-Feb-07, at 1:24 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote: > I had one student, who is a > musician, say he had never heared / seen the actual playing of music > described more truly than in the last few pages of the story. Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Some speak of a return to nature -- I wonder where they could have been? Frederick Sommer