At 12:59 PM 12/19/02 -0600, William Crump wrote:

Hey List, it's the holidays. What's the best gift of music you ever got?

From my parents in 1978: Robin Maconie's book on Stockhausen. Listening to Stockhausen was my personal turning point down the path from strange music (Zappa, Crimson) to *really* strange music, and Maconie's book helped me immeasurably. --

Caleb Deupree cdeupree@erinet.com