No Arts Monopoly

Dave Bedrosian writes, “Our parents enjoyed and consumed classical music and big band swing, music you had to understand something about to like” (Calendar Letters, Sept. 20). As a music teacher himself, how can he lump all these together?

Art is creativity. Bedrosian is a teacher of an art form as well as a person who was raised at a time when a literary work such as “The Catcher in the Rye” went from gutter trash to classic literature in less than a generation. I hope he instills in his students the notion that no one has a monopoly on what is or is not good.

EARL EAGER ALBERT

Temple City