On a previous appearance on Firing Line, Mr. Buckley recalls, Miss Tureck had insisted that young people were discovering Bach. "I don't think she was wrong about Bach, but I am very much afraid that she overestimated the musical curiosity of our youth, since, as I look out of my window, I don't see students in Tiananmen Square clamoring for more Bach." The conversation this time ranges delightfully from--once

again--affinities between rock and Bach to the differences between performing earlier centuries' music on contemporary instruments and performing it on modern instruments: "There's a certain exoticism in seeing and hearing, say, an early-18th-century instrument ..., and although it's tremendously important for musicians to know them ... we are negating our 20th century altogether and erasing our present selves."