Agree or Disagree?

From Justin Davidson's review of the Mostly Mozart festival in New York:

Some attempts at making connections strain good will. The pianist and conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard tried valiantly to lend some Classical-era cred to the avant-garde iconoclast Karlheinz Stockhausen by leading the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in his 1953 Kontra-Punkte. Aimard offered a persuasive if apologetic introduction (“You may not love this piece,” he warned), emphasizing the counterpoint, the gamesmanship, and the satisfying lucidity of form that, he said, resembled Haydn’s. Then the music began and the links dissolved. I can imagine Mozart sitting at the piano and improvising a blistering parody of Stockhausen’s skittering melodies and nattering outbursts, which barely speak to the 21st century, let alone the eighteenth.

Does 'Kontra-Punkte' have anything to say to the 21st century?
	Yes
	No

Arnold Schoenberg, "String Trio"

Whose version of Schoenberg's 'String Trio' is better?
	Los Angeles String Trio
	Trio à Cordes Francais

Agree or Disagree?

“There is something rotten here, and we don’t have to go to Denmark to look for it. It’s not the public. That was always a lie. It’s not the mass media. A bigger lie. It’s not the capitalist system – another lie. It’s my colleagues. My fellow American composers. The most pedantic, the most boring, ungenerous bunch of human beings one can meet on an earth so crowded with the last men that hop and make it smaller and smaller. This earth, I mean.

It’s the college boys that are deciding what’s what in America. I’ll leave them with their judgement. I’ll leave America with my fame.” -- Morton Feldman

Do you agree with Feldman?
	Yes
	No

Sam v. Otis

Until a recent heated debate, it had never occurred to us that Otis Redding's version of 'A Change Is Gonna Come' might be better than the original; so, we decided to pose the question to our readers.

Whose version of 'A Change Is Gonna Come' is better?
	Sam Cooke's
	Otis Redding's

Autry v. Aerosmith

Who kicks more ass?
	Gene Autry
	Aerosmith

"Back in the Saddle"