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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical,net.audio
Subject: Re: Why classical music is not popular
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Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 00:48:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 00:48:47 1984
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>  	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
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