Re: [ARSCLIST] Szell on MAR Was:Bernstein info needed

[Dnjchi@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 2/3/2007 7:51:16 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Basically, what happened was fairly simple! In the mid-fifties, the  younger
folk all started listening (for the most part exclusively...I was  there...)
to rock'n'roll...and, insofar as they had any interest in playing  music...
they were trying to learn how to PLAY rock'n'roll! Classical music  was
pretty well ignored by these people...


I was in high school and college when rock 'n' roll too k hold.  But  even 
then I was into 78s of an older vintage.  Never got into rock 'n'  roll.
My senior year of college, in a science major, the Dean said I needed a  
humanities elective..so I took "Appreciating American Music" taught by composer  
Elie Siegmeister.  I thought it would be a toss-away class, but it turned  out 
to be a winner.  It directed my classical interests toward contemporary  
American composers.  I always pick up LPs by these composers, and have  amassed a 
fair library of such recordings.  Favorites are Aaron Copeland (I  have him 
performing some of his early piano pieces on Columbia 78s), and Virgil  Thompson.
So not EVERY kid was sucked into the rock 'n' roll mauw.
 
Don Chichester