Richard Tsuyuki <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >It follows, then, that a reason that Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky >are so popular on the radio and in the "averaged" tastes of many listeners >might be that they often provide a catchy, sing-able tune or two. I guess I may have come in on the side of the "catchy tune" myself... like I'd mentioned earlier, I'd performed for several years before I became a listener of classical music... I'd been playing violin solo and in orchestras since I was little, but it took the sweet sounds of Pavarotti singing those soaring Puccini arias (and *just* the arias at first, not the whole operas... that came at least a year later...) to actually get me *started* listening to and buying classical music. Albie