Aaron Rabushka wrote:

>Thank you, Kevin, for encouraging adventure among those of a limiting
>conservative bent.  I would add that a good library can cut the financial
>risk to nil--in fact, without the St. Louis County Library (the one in
>Clayton for those familiar with the area) my musical background would be
>next to nil.  It's amazing what I got at a cost of only my father's
>gasoline!

There is another subject that is near and dear to my heart.  Alas, most
branches of the Dallas Public Library do not hold any recordings for
circulation.  I think this a crime.  If it weren't for the small public
library in New Castle, IN (pop. 17,000), I wouldn't know half the music
that I know.  I am forever grateful that they stocked (and they still do
thank heavens0 a large number of classical cds.  (records then) an allow
them to circulate.  I would encourage listers who sometimes cull their
collections to consider donating them to the public library for the tax
deduction rather than selling them.  You have no idea what a great gift it
was for me and many like me to have acces to those recordings as a child.

Kevin Sutton