Jane Pierce wrote: >I thought I was the only one longing for a wonderland of classical music. >I am chided by my friends who can't "dig it". They tell me to "get over >it". I don't know what was in the water when the masters travelled this >earth, but I am so glad to have any little trinket of their masterpieces. >I guess we are like the dinosaur researchers who appreciate the extinct >species of world history. Only if we only listen to music by dead people. There is plenty of music written by people very much alive. I also always make sure to remind rock and pop devotees that there are plenty of dead rockers whose music is still listened to. I recall a bizarre interview with Nigel Kennedy at the time of his "retirement" from the classical world. "No more works by dead blokes," he announced and in the next breath revealed that his new project was arrangements of material by Jimi Hendrix. Tony Duggan Staffordshire, United Kingdom.