Don Satz wrote: >I think that classical music will survive the lack of music education in >public schools. It isn't as if the music education was excellent in the >past; it existed, I attended the classes, and I quickly dropped it from >the brain when class was over. This is especially true if it is treated as a routine academic subject: memorize a lot of facts and regurgitate them on tests. But that is (at least in this country) an unconstitutional way to treat music: cruel and unusual punishment. Inventive teachers can do much better than that. My younger son, just completing 6th grade, has never been a great CM fan, but he has been in a CM class this year, and the other day he did an astounding thing: he actually hummed a bit of Bach's Musette and asked me if I recognized it. So at least he is staying awake in the class, and I am certainly grateful for the reinforcement of my efforts to get him to pay at least a bit of attention to good music. Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]