Jeremey McMillan:
>Parents even let their newborns and toddlers listen to classical music in
>hope of building their brain. I even saw a CD at the store titled, Build
>your Baby's Brain through the power of Beethoven. So, from what I gather,
>a lot of people have a high tendency to associate Classical music and
>Intelligence. What do you all think?
Marketing, pure marketing. I know lots of very intelligent (or competent)
people with no interest whatsoever in classical music. I also know some
less-than-very-intelligent people who adore the music. It's an idea that
seems to be reinforced by the movies, which also often use a taste for
classical music to indicate aristocratic, genius-level evil (villain
played by Alan Rickman or George Sanders).
Steve Schwartz