Letters, Sep. 2, 1957

Music to Muse By

Sir:

TIME rings the bell again with its fine sense of connotation in "Mood Menace" [Aug. 12]. A pox on all pretentious, middlebrow music, not good enough to be good and not honest enough to be vulgarly bad.

F. R. FARROW JR. Haddonfield, NJ.

Sir:

How long before a sincere music lover will have to look for his choice in terms of something like Music to Listen to Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony By?

WALDEN P. PRATT

Stanford, Calif.

Sir:

My husband and I have often chuckled over an imaginary percussive album called Music...

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