Church choirs, marching bands, choruses, and orchestras do not fully satisfy the musical appetites of the young. Hundreds of thousands of American youth want more. Their drive, their enthusiasm, their creativity, and their enormous fund of talent have produced new music-vibrant, original, and honest. Young people's music can be held at bay outside the institutions of society as it largely is at present, or it can be recognized as a vital and welcome new regenerative force and invited to assume a respectable position in the American musical culture. Music educators are now asked to decide if continuity of a proud but restricted tradition is more important than open experimentation with a wide spectrum of music. Shall we continue to relegate Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Brahms to the permanent role of being America's greatest composers? Do we support the practice of reserving our concert halls only for the "high" art, thus assuring that the "people's" art be forced into barrooms and pop festivals?

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