At the risk of being Provincial again (with a big P), I'd like to call
attention to *two* Bay Area music directors who do a great job in presenting
contemporary music while not bankrupting their organizations -- Kent Nagano
and Michael Tilson Thomas. Watch the MTT interview this Sunday on "Sixty
Minutes."

Re.: Don's point about who stays away and who doesn't, SFS actually picked
up a great deal of business with MTT's more adventurous programming than it
had with his predecessors.


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>Don Satz writes:
>
>>I assume that those who attend concerts with any regularity do so
>>because they expect the "traditional" programming.  But couldn't there
>>be a different potential audience which stays away because of that type
>>of programming who would flock to the concert hall if the programming did
>>become more adventurous and feature more of the "obscure"?
>
>There are plenty of musical directors / conductors who are deeply involved
>personally with modern music, eg Maazel, Rattle,.  But tmostly they cater
>to the guidance of the managerial caste because they realize that in Big
>Music, it's the only way to survive handsomely.  In distressingly mundane
>terms, __there's a market out there__.  The folks who are expert in this
>market and have stacked programing accordingly.  In another posting I have
>pointed out where management thinks it can accomodate modern programming.
>It's not exactly in the favelas.
>
>Denis Fodor
>