Denis Fodor writes:

>It's about Denis Fodor's personal experience with attenders of big-hall
>concerts.  It's about his contention that these attenders generally find
>avant garde stuff (eg atonal, serial, aleatory) ugly.

I don't doubt that Denis is on target about the preferences of current
concert-goers, but I do have a question based on the identity of these
concert-goers.  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"?

What I am picturing is that a significant number of current attendees
refuse to go due to the "new" programming, but that those numbers are
offset by new attendees who don't want the traditional stuff.  Is that
possible?

As an aside, I agree with Denis that "generally" most certainly is not
synonomous with "always".  I use the term to differentiate it from
"always".

Don Satz
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