Re: thread creep: What's more, if we hide here the folk police will never find us.

Kat: Good for your brother!

I think modern classical composers seem to feel it their bounden duty, for some crazy reason, to faithfully reflect the modern world's chaos, unhappiness and misery. Unfortunately, reviewers aid and abet them, partly since they themselves get a chance to show their own alleged erudition--they're so relieved not to have to say something new about Beethoven's 9th----and they get a chance to show off.