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Armed with our November book.
I fold my arms when I don’t have much to say, and others do.
Steve, in a plaid shirt and who listens to the Messiah every year, is making the point to Jim, in a Kofta sweater and who plays guitar in a church band, that Classical music is superior to other forms from other times.
Jim doesn’t buy it: ‘We may still be listening to The Grateful Dead in 100 years.’
‘But not 400,’ retorts Steve.
Spotting an opening for someone with a music-lite education, I point to the scene in Mr. Holland’s Opus where Richard Dryfus, at the piano, teaches his high school students about a musical scale by playing Bach.
‘The Ionian,’ chips in David, who brought two additional Messiah books, ‘that was the scale.’
‘Mr. Holland played them The Lover’s Concerto, a sixties hit,’ offered Bob. ‘It’s my favorite movie.’
