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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Why classical music isn't popular: new theory!!!
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 02:22:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 02:22:34 1984
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After my ride to work this morning in a car with a sunroof, I have suddenly
realized why my favorite music is not the music of the million. It all rests
on one assumption. (Always assume, etc. - just can't keep away from Rich
Rosen's signature lines!)

And that is - For most people, music while driving is a must. Whatever a
persons's favorite music is, it must be listenable in the car - especially
on those lovely warm days when you feel so good and the windows (or sunroof)
are all rolled down. ok?

Well, you think the niceties of the last act of "pelleas and melisande" are
going to make it through that noisy background? The middle movement of the
Jupiter Symphony? The dense counterpoint of Schoenberg's orchestra Variations?
(Just couldn't leave him out.) Forget it. You want a beat - Boom-cht, Boom-cht,
Boom-cht, Boom-ch-ch, Boom-cht etc. and some kind of tune in the treble 
that's easy to follow. presto! A market is born.

Then again...

				out in the sun too long,
					Jeff Winslow