Dave Lampson replies to Satoshi Akima: >>Unfortunately the 20th century was also the age of the triumph of mass >>produced commercial popular music, which to my mind is what really helped >>establish the triumph amongst the masses of tonal music over pantonality. > >Ah, yes, once again we come to the crux of it. If we don't like the >musical styles you do, then we have succumbed to the pressures of the >ignorant masses. This sort of broad insult does little to lend >credibility to an argument. I think Dave overreacts - quick to see an insult. I believe that mass-marketing and recording technologies have affected musical and other artistic tastes, including the tastes of the college-degreed. Only a bunch of fanatics care about classical music, "hard art," or "hard lit" in the first place. Charlie Rose - to me a reliable barometer of college-degreed taste - will certainly not have Jared Carter, Laura Clayton, or Jim Sohr on his show. I don't really see why one would ignore these factors, even on the grounds that one feels patronized. Steve Schwartz