Do you like classical music? Do you listen to it everyday?

I love the Romantics, especially Chopin, and the Contemporary Russians - Rachmaninoff et al. My parents are both classically trained and used to play this game in the car between themselves of trying to figure out the time period, composer, and name of piece playing on public radio. I do the same thing now. :-) I do think classical music helps young minds develop because of the way it is written and played. In most pieces, there isn't a steady, heavy rythym line and that gets their brains to make different sorts of connections from what happens when kids only listen to "popular" music - and yes, there have been studies on the differences in brain development between kids exposed to different types of music.