Bill Pirkle wrote:

>If you had to select 10 compositions to introduce someone to classical
>music which ones would you choose? Remember, you don't want to turn
>them off with works that are hard to understand.  They should include
>symphonies, concertos, and trios, quartets and piano works.

Mussorgsky--Pictures at an Exhibition (my first)
Beethoven--Symphony 5
Beethoven--Archduke (1st mvt)
Bartok--For Children
Khatchaturian--Gayneh Suite
Haydn--Trumpet Concerto or Bach's Second Brandenberg
Bach--Toccata & Fugue in D minor
Elgar-Starlight Express
Menotti-Amahl and the Night Vistors (live, not a recording)
One of the narrator pieces: Prokofiev-Peter; Britten-Young Person's; St
Saens-Carnival

I wonder if string quartets and most concertos are that appealing to kids,
but what do I know?

Roger Hecht