Music Appreciation in School

Music Memory played an enormous part in my lifetime appreciation forclassical music. I was a finalist at my school in the music memorycontest. And although I went down to ignominious defeat at the symphonyfinals, I will never forget the music that I learned... and the melodiesor tunes of those pieces - Unfinished Symphony, Hungarian Dance #5, etc,etc. And this program required nothing of the teachers other than tokeep us still with our heads down during the music. (Others may havegotten a similar association from watching the older cartoons which werepeppered with classical music old chestnuts and became a subliminalassociation for later in life!)Now when I look back I see what that experience gave to me when I becamean independent woman in my 20s - RESONANCE! When I heard those "tunes"from the Music Memory program, it gave me a link to a comfortable place.Did I have a sophisticated understanding of the music at that time?Surely not. But I had an affection, which became love, and has developedinto a much more knowledgeable understanding and thirst for classicaland modern music.Would that our school children today could get just that resonanceto carry into their adult years!! Lets bring back the Music MemoryProgram!! The possibilities are boggling with today's youth!