  Whoever stole it from whomever, give it back.   I was listening today to the radio, and they played Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring. In case you don't know, Copeland was a jew. That piece of music isn't too bad. It is rather pleasing at times, but also somewhat abrupt and aggitating at other times. The basic theme is from an old hymn, A Gift to be Simple. The piece is the most pleasant when it is closest to being like that old hymn.  Copeland doesn't really develope the theme. He just jerks around from one place to another. Well, sometimes he plays the theme fast, sometimes slow, adds some dynamics and various orchestration, but doesn't seem to go anywhere in developing the theme. George Gerswin, another jewish composer, was the same way in some of this pieces.  I don't think that Appalachian Spring would pass for music in Beethoven's day. Which brought me to thinking how that, in order to be all inclusive, with all the races 'contributing' something to culture, what do you do with those races that can't compose music? The answer is simple; you change the definition of music.   The jews were big promoters of jazz, and rock, and now rap. They invented 'pop culture', Or the counter culture. People who listened to classical music were deemed geeky, or old fashion, fuddy-duddy, snobs, 'square' and not 'with it'. I am of the opinion that if another piece of music hadn't been written after 1840, we wouldn't miss anything.   What if there were no jazz, country-western or rock? Would the world come to an end? I don't think so. There was so much good music written, over the course of several hundred years, that if you were to listen to as much of it as you could, you wouldn't have time for any of the recent, so called 'music'.  Yes, some very good points. Exactly what I've always believed. Classical music is the only music worthy of being called art IMO. Classical is the greatest, everything since has been a step down. Classical is culture, most other more modern music forms are more or less just pop culture. Classical is art, country,rock,bluegrass,jazz etc, are more just entertainment rather than true art.