Klarinet Archive - Posting 001407.txt from 1998/07

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Classical Music and Young People
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:52:55 -0400

At 07:34 PM 7/31/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I think that most teenagers (I am one myself) will say that they don't like
>classical mainly becuase they are afraid of what others might say. Kids my
age
>would rather stay with what they're comfrotable with; many have probably
never
>sat and listened to more than twenty seconds of a good Mozart, Bethoven, or
>Bach piece. Besides, isn't the stereotypical "geek" the type who reads fat
>books and listens to classical music?
>
>Kristen

Kristen, please note that the more things change, the more they say
pathetically the same. I could have written this paragraph in 1957.
Forty-one years ago.

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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