Norman M. Schwartz:

>Nevetheless don't forget most people want to relax to enjoy listening,
>period.  After a long day's hard work they are not looking to preserve
>the art or to do more work getting out their encyclopedias to read and
>study.

It may well be that you are right about most people, though I hope not.
A commercial classical music radio station in Milwaukee, WFMR, "your
at-work station," is always touting its mission as to provide "relaxing"
music.  This makes me sad, because I have always found good classical
music to be exciting rather than relaxing, though--as in the case of
other forms of excitement I will not name here--it helps to be relaxed
first as a precondition.

Jim Tobin

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