Message #28480

[Gauk]

I think it's not unreasonable to describe as "forgotten" a work that was never much in the public eye to start off with. "The Land That Time Forgot" doesn't imply somewhere that everyone had previously heard of. It would be much harder to produce a list of works that were once well-loved, but now forgotten. Not impossible, but I think one would struggle to find ten American "masterpieces" in that category. If a work is that good, it doesn't so often fade away after becoming established in the repertoire; much more likely it never makes it to the repertoire in the first place.