Anna Weber wrote: >To me, a part of the passion of listening to concerts is the reminder >of a society of higher minded persons who want to exercise the self >discipline of absorbing the many components of classical music. I can't connect with this premise of "higher minded" and "self discipline". I used to be a hard rock person, now I'm a classical music person - my mind was just as high then as now. My wife much prefers Bob Seeger and Willie Nelson, and her mind is at a much higher level than mine (which is usually in the gutter). Personally, these "elitist" comments do classical music lovers no favors at all. We are simply individuals who love/prefer a certain type of music - we are no better or worse than anyone else for it. Don Satz [log in to unmask]