Long talk with Phil yesterday morning, wide-ranging over visual pattern-recognition vs. "computation" in chimpanzees; home movies and snapshots in the Third Reich; the morbidity of serialist "emotion;" the validity of Evil. I got to say Why are Wozzeck and Lulu and Die Soldaten (Phil had never heard of Henze before) so preoccupied with the abjectly unpleasant? And why is the question so seldom asked? Anent Henze, Mordden says that the only reason his awful stuff is ever performed at all in the United States is that "those scheduling concerts must from time to time include the work of a living composer or be laughed out of the annals."