Some of these are pretty obscure, although Ang�le had an audience.

Angele Arsenault. She is a French-Canadian composer, poet, singer, comedienne, social commentator, philosopher, and a great performer, very cheerful. She has written dozens of the most astonishing songs. She deals some basic attitudes to life. After early period, many of her songs are full of life, humour and joy, but she still retains the satirical scalpel. I have 6 or 7 of her LPs. J'ai vecu bien des annees, Les grands succes, Just A Memory JAM 9124-2, is a good collection of 20 of them. Most of her songs are in French, of course, but she did have an LP in English.

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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Caucasian Sketches. There are two suites, but the first is the better. The best performance I've heard is with Siegfried Landau and The Music for Westchester Symphony Orchestra, which I have on Vox Allegretto ACD 8161. The sound is pleasant, but not great. The rest of the CD isn't great, but it's cheap. Caucasian Sketches is a somewhat guilty pleasure because Ippolitov-Ivanov is not usually regarded as a great composer, although some of his choral works are sung occasionally.

Toshiro Mayuzumi, Samsara tone poem. I have this on Marco Polo 8.220297 with Fukumura and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. My first acquaintance with the work was with the Louisville Symphony on a Lousiville LP. Most people probably wouldn't like this one.

Subotnick, The Wild Bull. Electronic music. Though the composer says it did not inspire the music, he put an ancient Sumerian poem on the record jacket concerning the loss of a woman's husband, whom she refers to as the wild bull. This is on a Nonesuch LP, H-71208. This a rather dark lamentation and many people might not like it. There is a CD version.

Deems Taylor, Through the Looking Glass. We had this when I was young. I was able to find a mono recording on Mercury, but some years ago, I came across a Delos recording with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony, on Delos DE 3099. The best of the five scenes is the Jabberwocky, but the whole work is ingenious and delightful. Taylor was the original commentator on Disney's Fantasia, aside from being a critic, composer, and radio commentator on music.

J. M. Kraus and J. B. Vanhal, Symphonies. Naxos has done some excellent recordings of these 18th century symphonists. While not in the class of Haydn and Mozart, I like them better than the Bach sons, the Stamitzes, Beck, and some others. These two were very competent and inventive composers.