Nick Perovich wrote: >Steve Schwartz, commenting on the ignorance regarding the arts of even >those presumed to be well educated: > >>I've just had an argument with an old friend about whether 'twas ever >>thus. I tend to think so. What strikes me as new, however, is that >>these days, most people have no embarrassment at all about their own >>ignorance. I am reminded of some tapes I have of an old radio show..."It Pays to be Ignorant." >It would be interesting to see some research on this. While it doesn't >count as research, I can remember how amazed I was, when browsing through >middlebrow magazines (e.g., TIME) from the 1950's: the amount of space >devoted to covering classical music was astonishing. ... From my reading, it wasn't just the coverage classical music got... remember the issue of Life which featured a piece by Copland...but the level of the writing. Karl