Ray Bayles wrote concerning Peter Gelb:

>... he doesn't understand classical music or the classical music
>customer at all.

Ray may well be correct in his assumptions.  However, I don't think that
Gelb has any interest in possessing this knowledge, because it is not
germane to his plans which are to create a new classical audience which
is much bigger than the current one.

>He will do some long-term damage to Sony.....

It's hard to project what impact Gelb will have on Sony in the long-term.
For the short-term, I think that his impact will be profitable for Sony.
Again, I think that we tend to underestimate this man's vision for the
future.  It's one of greater profit and new/bigger audience.  For what it's
worth, my guess is that he will be as successful as he envisions - that's
success for him and Sony.  It won't do me or many others on this list a bit
of good.

Don Satz
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