I just discovered this gem.  Thanks Karl for posting.

Reading through these responses, I don't think they are much different
from what they'd have been when I was a freshman (1963), except we'd
have rebelled at the concept of marketing ;-)

Personally, I think 'classical' music should start at home and be taught
in grade school.  I remember having music classes in 1st gradel where
we watched those wonderful cartoon shorts featuring classical music and
of course Fantasia in later grades.  We got to play with instruments and
had fun sight and sound games learning about them.  We started band/orchestra
in the 5th grade as I recall.

If it is not part of their cultural milieu before puberty, you will loose
most of them forever.  The religious teacher's have always understood
this, which is why most of us went to a Sunday school of one sort or
another.

I find this quote the saddest:

> Nothing makes sense, how can you be telling a story without
> words.

Bill Blank
http://kernunnos.com (Celtic studies and numismatics)
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