J'suis snob, oh yeah...

I'm firmly convinced that if all students from the first grade (even kindergarten) through their last
year in college were exposed to simple ear training exercises that allowed them the opportunity to
identify what they were hearing on the radio, TV, records, jazz, opera, orchestra, chorus, band, etc., our music scene in general would be much different! In my opinion, if simple ear training exercises, coupled with simple music theory, were carried out in public school, the public would demand music of a much higher calibre than they are presently consuming. Why would they demand “better” music? Because they would HEAR that the music they are being fed is too repetitious, trite, and banal to warrant our attention, much less our money on the sales of records or concert attendance.