Doublereed Archive - Posting 000032.txt from 2003/01

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] [Dblrd-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:51:30 -0500

"The piano is the social instrument par excellence=E2=80=A6. drawing-room f
urniture,
a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which th
e
young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of

entertainment."

-Jacques Barzun (b. 1907) French-American historian and educator
preface to Arthur Loesser, Men, Women and Pianos, (1954)