Mian, I like your points.

"Admiration makes a thing beautiful in a way..." An idea or a work (such as a work of art) takes on a life of its own when someone other than its creator admires it.

Your second note about repetition reminds me of a man who said that if he had just one wish, it would be to read Mark Twain's "Life On the Mississippi" again for the first time. I guess if there was as, Dante suggests, "ecstasy" in the first time then it would be reasonable to think that it should be pleasurable (heaven) to have that moment repeated. My friend's idea of hell was based on an initial less-than-pleasurable experience. I suppose that Dante's point was along the lines of: too much of anything - even too much water - can be a bad experience. Moderation in all things, I guess.

And Jack (WICJ), I would like to do a similar thing. I would like to show some of those great old composers and some of the newer (deceased) ones that their music is still alive. But that makes me wonder whether they would be more flattered than appalled at some of the forms in which their music now appears.

Allan C. (whoissinging"howgentleistherain"underhisbreath)