I love tonal music. I love modern music. I even generally like modern tonal music. As Gordon Getty himself says, "there is still plenty to be said in C major". Whatever can be said in C major, however (music is not a zero-sum game), could certainly be said with more originality - and fewer cloying melodies and anemic harmonies. Andrew Lloyd Webber's melodies are at least pretty; most revivalist hymns have more interesting harmonic progressions; even some Czerny etudes have more wit than this....

Other works of Getty's have been praised in these pages, but there's no musical thought here that couldn't be written better by someone else.