John Detwiler: >Basically... CM is uncool. It's as simple as that. ... > >The first thing, before any national CM program could become successful, >would be to make CM, if not cool, then acceptable. Like, for kids bored on >a Friday night, upset that their favorite place to go is closed, one might >say "hey, why don't we try the Symphony?" That may not be replied to with >great deals of enthusiasm, but at least "Sure, that might be pretty cool." >We must make that scenario possible before any other improvement, I think. I think you've hit it. The question I have is why kids find it so important to be cool in the first place and why they let cool be defined for them by somebody else. Steve Schwartz