"Students are refreshing," observes Davenport wryly. "Andrea said that she is writing a thesis on architecture and music. In the course of the conversation . . . I discovered that she had never heard of Mahler, Stravinsky, or Vivaldi. To name but three, I suppose. There's a whole generation in college now that has heard of nothing."
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