Converting heathens to Classical

[Anne]

Marv, thank you.  You are so generous with your compliments.  It had not been my idea to introduce The Ring to such a young child.  I read it on another bulletin board where a father or grandfather was telling how well the child liked everything about The Ring.  I thought maybe it would work for our family too.  Happily it did.  No one told the children how difficult Wagner was supposed to be or that his grandmother had taken over 6 weeks to learn to like the "bloody chunks."  The most wonderful thing about young children is that they are so open to new experiences and offer no resistance.  We need to get to them before the rest of the world tells them that classical music is boring, etc. etc.

Right now neither of my grandchildren listens to classical music and that's OK with me.  They are busy being teenagers and listening to that kind of music.  Hopefully the seed will sprout some day and they will listen on their own.

tanuki, thank you for your comment.