Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical,net.audio Subject: Re: Why classical music is not popular Message-ID: <3051@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 00:48:47 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3051 Posted: Fri Aug 17 00:48:47 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Aug-84 00:38:52 EDT References: <659@flairvax.UUCP> <211@fisher.UUCP>, <192@olivej.UUCP> <1074@hou4b.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 12 > What a tragedy! Hundreds of years of musical development lost in > just two generations! We worry about the effect of the computer on the > basic skills of our children. Why, oh why couldn't we have recognized this > happening when the phonograph was invented? It slipped past most of us, I guess. But somewhere I read that John Phillip Sousa, on discovering the phonograph, prophesied the death of music. Sorry I can't quote the exact remark. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell