Michel Angstadt What an interesting piece of information from your life Michel! Your daughters are of course female, a young boy like me who my father once tried to shut up by giving me a piece of stilton at about 2 years old and who delighted in the maturity, exquisiteness and profundity of its taste and who for his 3rd birthday wanted a pylon and who then didn't stop fusing about pylons till my father built me one out of McCanno, may have took up with characteristic young laddish intrigue and interest the mature and challenging style of Schoenberg's 'Verklarte Nacht'. I liked the 26 minute piece when I used to have it on a double CD along with 'Pelleas et Melisande' by Schoenberg and the version by Sibelius. I love 'Ligeti' but also now I realise how much I adore William Lloyd Webber's music, whose work I think is as deeply sensual, rich and melodic as the '3rd Movement' of Mahler's '4th Symphony' but whose music of course would never appear on a series of programmes like this about music pioneers as he did not change music just write beautiful music in a more traditional style than so many composers of his day, himself being born 2 years after John cage and a year after Benjamin Britten. William Lloyd Webber's music proves that modern composers could and can find a beautiful melody if they wished to! A lovely story you've mentioned, Michel. I hope your daughters enjoy the music you like and find happiness like you I'm sure have through music! Cheers - Mike