have heard several classical-music radio program hosts—Lynne Warfel, Scott Blankenship, Jeff Esworthy, Victor Forman—relate something that jibes with my own experience, and I would guess also with the experience of many other people: Their first exposure to classical music came when they were children, not because they grew up in a musical household surrounded by great recordings or live performances, but from the TV—notably, Buggs Bunny in “What’s Opera, Doc?” where Elmer Fudd hilariously intones “Kill the Wabbit” to the tune of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” and Buggs Bunny stars in “Rhapsody in
