re: #521 William Lewis
I think I sat through one whole one once - his Flying Dutchman - because I was waiting for intermission to sneak out but they did it in it’s no intermission version … < bangs head almost as hard as then at memory >
The worst concert piece I ever heard was one of those 12-tone scale abominations. The orchestra sounded better while they were warming up and tuning their instruments than they did while playing that composition. It was truly dreadful.