<HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">But classical music it's not; at its best, it doesn't involve more or less precise renditions of more or less complex pieces from standard scores produced by performers who creativity is a matter of fidelity to someone's idea of a composer's intentions.</BLOCKQUOTE> And why, pray tell, should that be the criteria for a music being considered "classical?" Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>