Laurence Glavin wrote:

>Enough music from the CD was played to cause a run on Amazon
>to order the recording which at this very moment is NUMBER FOUR among
>all music CD's.  Wow...do you think the honcho's at NPR will observe
>this phenomenon and conclude there actually IS a market for classical
>music on the radio?

Thank you for this interesting observation.  I very much wonder whether
the conclusion would be the only reasonable one.

I love the lamented LHL as much as anyone.  Her great Charpentier Medee
and her amazing Didon which I was privileged to attend the opening night
of are unforgettable.  I doubt there is a major market for the magical
recording of Charpentier's great opera.  On the other hand I have heard
both the Neruda Songs in a LHL live performances and yesterday on the
radio heard some Harbison songs recorded by LHL.  I personally don't
find myself moved by either Peter Lieberson's music or Harbison's.  I
am dreadfully sorry to hear of Mr. Lieberson's ailment.  I believe that
the reason for the run on the CD at Amazon is that there is currently a
cult of the beloved and lamented LHL as there was also of Jan DeGaetani
and earlier of Kathleen Ferrier.  There is something that moves persons
who may otherwise not be terribly interested in Classical Music, something
related to the illness and the dying so young in the midst of life, the
death of so talented a person as this beloved singer.  I missed that
part of Weekend Edition bc.  there was too large a segment about a
accidental president and I simply shut the radio,

Best, Yoel