Bernard Chasan wrote: >But I have this romantic notion that some young person out on the >plains somewhere, or in the inner city for that matter, will hear these >(Metropolitan Opera) broadcasts and perhaps be inspired to probe a bit >further into the world of art and music. I remember reading about forty years ago - in that unimpeachable source of cultural information, the Reader's Digest - that Nell Rankin's first impetus toward becoming an opera singer was hearing a Met broadcast when she was a little girl. She grew up in Montgomery Alabama, not on the plains exactly but not in a major musical centre either. Richard