Message #27497

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"Dull" maybe to some....but not to this listener :)
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OK then what about just "earthbound" (in which case how confounding to see Cooke's music spoken of in the same breath with Rubbra's, suffused as that is with the "heights and depths" so absent from Cooke)?

That way we can acknowledge Cooke's striking and distinctive qualities perhaps, but still recognize how lacking in "significances" the music is.