Jee-Sun Huh wrote:

>Just wondering how you guys started enjoying classical music the way you do
>today.

My story is happy and sad.

I came from an anti-musical family.  I was intrigued with music and
its instruments when I heard my junior high band.  I joined my junior high
band.  My high school band was a very good one, and we played a lot of good
music.  Beethoven, Schubert, Persichetti.  I came to like my band director
a lot and made friends in the band I have to this day.  One of them put me
on to record collecting.  The story goes from there.

With the devastation of so many public school music programs, I wonder how
many people, raised in families like mine, can repeat this story.

I don't wonder why classical music is in trouble.

Roger Hecht