Greetings!  Our canine roomate, Drifter-the-Ferocious-Schoolhouse-Dog,
loves music!  If she knows that I am teaching a lesson in the morning, she
delays her morning constitutional until after the lesson.  When I play my
sopranino recorder, she croons along.  And one time when my ensemble (The
Metropolitan String Quartet) was recording our Christmas collection, my
husband tried to remove Drifter from the recording session.  She growled
and snapped at him (behavior she most usually reserves for insurance
salesmen), and would not be moved!  Drifter snuggled in between the
cellist and violist, and enjoyed the rest of the session.

And then there was the time I was reading string quartets with some folks
in Florida, and the big dog of the household obviously enjoyed Mozart,
Beethoven, and Haydn.  However, when we started reading Shostakovich, this
dog complained and moaned incessantly.  When we switched back to older
works, she went back to sleep.

Deborah Greenblatt
Violinist/Violist/Arranger for The Metropolitan String Quartet
http://www.mastercall.com/g-s