Edgar Beach wrote: >Bernard Chasan at [log in to unmask] wrote: > >>Classical music is unpopular because it requires an attention span and a >>commitment. > >Reading a good book requires attention and commitment also. Yet Reading >still remains a popular human endeavor because there are still good books >being written and read today. Some may even attain classic status. I believe that, for classical music to be fully appreciated, it almost always requires more concentration than reading. At least it does for me. Besides, one can put down a book if one gets tired of reading it for the moment. Music requires one's atention right then and there. And if reading were cut from public schools as have music programs, how many books would be sold? Jocelyn Wang Culver Chamber Music Series