Mimi Ezust wrote: >I don't think of this as being puritanical. In fact, I feel deeply sorry >for people who never learned to read music, never experienced playing in >a musical organization, never played or sang well enough to be invited >to play chamber-music or sing madrigals, never went to an adult music >camp, never fiddled or tooted in community orchestras, never sat down and >sight-read sonatas with a terrific pianist or flute player just for FUN. > >I don't say this to make people feel uncomfortable with their own level >of understanding or appreciation. "God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing." Rabindranath Tagore Walter Meyer, a musical illiterate, who, despite Mimi's disavowals of any intention to make people feel uncomfortable, now feels like the little match girl peering into the window of opulence