Len Fehskens wrote:

>Once again I am reminded that I am in the company of sophisticates in
>comparison to whom I have wooden ears.  I go to concerts regularly, even
>Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts conducted by the routinely maligned
>Seiji Ozawa, and I am enthralled.  I have to wonder how my wooden ears
>give me so much more pleasure than those capable of making such exquisite
>distinctions that my experiences are "lifeless" to them.

Maybe it's because those wooden ears are connected to a brain that realizes
that enjoying music, after all, isn't like adding up a columns in a ledger
book or scoring punches in a boxing match.

Bill H.