Steve Schwartz: >...one might consider educating the public in two ways: giving them familiarity with the canon (the classical Top Fifty) and broadening interest to music outside the canon... Yes, it is important to educate the public, since the basic school to university. I teach History of Music in a conservatory in my country, Brazil, where the pop music became, in present era (from years 90), poor and vulgar (in pornographic sense). It is a terrible condition because the pupils never heard a complete Beethoven symphony. Thus I reeducate the ear of them. It is a hard process, but after of 3 years the musical conscience is developmented. Edson Ortolan [log in to unmask]