Today music has become an empty word. Luther said that all music that did not praise God belonged to the devil. Music in other words had to be more than wallpaper, a sedative, or opiate. Even for those amongst us today for whom God is dead, this has significance. We have forgotten today that to be truly worthy of being called music, music must appeal to something utterly fundamental to our essential most Being. To those amongst us, who have felt the power of music to do just that are damned to seemingly forever struggle with the soulless triteness of so much that is passed off as 'music' - a struggle every bit as real to us as it was to Luther. And so we talk of musical education, and dream of 'commercial viability' when above all else we have lost the ability to communicate that inner vision which draws us back to drink again at the fountain of musical inspiration. Frequently one reads post or letters to music magazines in which some soul somehow stumbles upon the world of 'classical/art' music, and where the shock of the discovery was so great it was like discovering a secret universe to which they had hitherto been deaf. The question then is how one is to awake that inner eye to a new world, so that one may 'hear' this music anew - to hear it in the manner the deaf Beethoven 'heard' it. Drink my friend it will rejuvenate thee. Satoshi Akima Sydney, Australia [log in to unmask]