<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=046205315-18022005><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"It is the individual that matters, = never the mass .... The numbers of people who consume music is of interest to concert promoters, but it is of no interest to me. The mass adds nothing to art. = It cannot raise the level, and the artist who aims consciously at mass = appeal can do so only by lowering his own level. The soul of each individual who = listens to music is important to me, not the mass feeling of the group. Music = cannot be helped by an increase in the quantity of listeners ... (but) only = through an increase in the quality of listening, the quality of the individual = soul." ---  Igor Stravinsky (but it could have just as easily been written = by his rival, Arnold Schoenberg)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>