Karl Miller writes: >...I am reminded of a letter I read in Film Score monthly. This particular >film music enthusiast wrote something like..."the problem with classical >music is that there is so much stuff between the good stuff. With film >music, it's just the good parts."... Much of the lament concerning the daemmerung of classical music relates to live performance. (I mean, let's face it: recordings are far more plentiful than they were in the heyday of the Teatro Colon or the Theater an der Wien.)Film music is very professional stuff in the genre of "art music." The film action is usually more susceptible to controversy than is its accompanying music. Moreover, the music understandably tends to sound modern because the sound track is a modern invention. That may explain why a lot of kids are not a priori averse to liking it. Why, then, don't some of these concert halls that find themselves catering to ever more annuated audiences have their orchestras and music directors play programs of movie music-- music, I would add, backdropped by a large screen showing the parts of whatever movie the music relates to? I can even imagine a whole festival devoted to this (or has it already been done?) Denis Fodor