Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Metzger asks:
>
>>Why is classical music so unpopular?
>
>Most of the babes look like Rosalyn Tureck.

Ignoring Steve's unseemly bad taste, is he kidding? There are any number
of what he chooses to call "babes" playing the violin.  And were he to
peruse the pages of the periodical, "Chamber Music", he would would see
ads for groups rich in babeness- the Cassatt String Quartet, in residence
at Syracuse University.

Bernard Chasan