With the best intentions in the world I find that books written about any living composers are never really all that excellent - including major composers like Boulez, and he is 80 odd. Writers seem reluctant to write about people who may yet have more significant things to say... Just a thought.

99 I said I would not take part in a slanging match but as you still have trouble quoting me accurately I will make an exception.
You don’t seem able to grasp the basics but surly you realise by now that the object of my post was not to argue about whether the Male brain is superior to the female brain but to admit that there are differences and explore the significance of the differences that are being discovered.
A couple of further links:
Marian C. Diamond, Ph.D.
http://www.newhorizons.org/neuro/dia...ale_female.htm

Larry Cahill University of California,.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=his-brain-her-brain

There are many more that await you unbiased opinion .

Thank you. But did you post the wrong links? I searched those for 'conducting' and 'composing' without a hit.

99. True to form, Am I using the wrong language, Martian perhaps?

Ah, electroacoustic composers, that's why I havn't heard of them! That isn't the technique of letting the computer do the composing for them is it? I was talking about composers like Clara Schumann and Ethel Smyth (proper composers).