davem ... I did check out the Amazon site and reviews. Of course, the reviews are from people who purchased the CD because they had heard it and liked it a great deal... enough so to shell out good money for it. That is hardly an impartial or objective review. Those are reviews of the true believers in the concept.
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though I admit it I didn't 'get' it first time I listened. I've probably listened to it a good couple of dozen times & its one of my favourite albums of all time.
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The music was written for a play that most people are going to walk in having not heard it before. They should be able to "get it" on first hearing or else the composer has failed in his job. Is the composer suppose to take the approach that the music is simply so dense and complicated that you have to come back and pay big bucks to hear it again and again until it sounds right to you?