Jocelyn Wang wrote: >Moreover, the more alarming reality to all of this is that classical >music itself is in trouble due to the fact that we have had, at least >in the USA, nearly two generations raised without any significant arts >education in schools. I think that classical music will survive the lack of music education in public schools. It isn't as if the music education was excellent in the past; it existed, I attended the classes, and I quickly dropped it from the brain when class was over. The subject was an "aside" when I went to school; now it's gone. I'm not sure that there's much difference between the two. Don Satz [log in to unmask]