Steve Schwartz wrote: >Bernard Chasan replies to Karl Miller and me: > >>Yes, and how much better to grow our own food. And make our own clothing >>!!! But that is not the world in which we live. > >How much better to have books read to us and interpreted for us, rather >than to do the work ourselves. We can take this analogy as far as you >wish. The question is, as always, where does it become unreasonable? And perhaps, how much does something interest us. I came to music relatively late in life. I had my first piano lessons in my junior year of High School. I started lessons so I could read scores to the music I enjoyed hearing. Karl