Stephen E. Bacher of Schindlers List: >... In the scene another soldier asks the one at the piano, "Ist das >Mozart?" I had always felt that the scene takes what could have been a >trite observation - the Nazis loved classical music - to a deeper level: >they had so debased their own cultural roots that the common German was >unable to distinguish Bach from Mozart. Thus what we tend to interpret >as a symbol of dichotomous erudition was in fact nothing of the kind. Having lived in Germany for a time, I can only say "Roger that!" In general, I found most Germans as classical-music ignorant as most Americans. And the home-grown pop music was worse. However, they sure had a lot of live classical music going on -- as far as I know, all state-subsidized -- so a classical musician could make a nice middle-class living. Steve Schwartz