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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (6876)	9/4/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: Gary Spiers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

OFF TOPIC Here's hoping that the "next generation" gets to hear the classics on something better than an MP3 player Part of the trouble is that in today's hectic world it takes a concerted effort to find time to sit and listen to a classic in its entirety. Unless children grow up in an environment where their parents do this it is unlikely that they will do so later on. I fear classical music will have an ever smaller and aging listening base. The 'classical' community also needs to ensure that it does not become fossilised in the sense that with a dwindling listener base and the recording companies tending to stick with the tried and trusted composers the catalog of new music will dry up. The local NPR station plays a very limited selection of classical music (it is the only classical station in town) compared to what I had been used to when I lived in Britain (BBC Radio3). In the past I was fortunate to be able to hear a lot of modern classical compositions "live" that have never made it into a recording catalog. It may be that home digital music publication and MP3 (or its better quality successor) has the potential to cause a renaissance of available new classical music! How to increase the listener base would still be a problem however. GaryS