I think Milan will be very welcome at the classical section of record stores in KL and Singapore which are manned by wannabe rockers, arty farty boys and "dodgy" looking characters (to paraphrase some of our customers - who walk in when they need wedding music), who think nothing of listening to all kinds of music and can easily discuss synchopation techniques from Beethoven to Ellington to Sid Barrett. Are classical composers better than rockers??? Not the new breed according to me. Good CM died a long time ago. Sure...Vanessa Mae is blah as a violinist....but she gets people listening.A whole generation of Malaysian listeners now know Bach's Toccata and Fugue. So does Linda Brava, and a host of other musicians who're better at embracing the pop culture of kissing up to their audience. Angela Gheorghiu for instance is a superior artist, but when it came down to simple meet the fans at a concert she and her husband held (by private invite) in KL, she was a no show. Aside from Neville Marriner...who charms everyone each time he's in town...classical artists generally have this stupid attitude that they're better than the rest of us plebs. Why??? are they that much better simply because they classical artists??? Bullshit!!! In today's world it's all about marketing...you can be the best..and yet no one aside from a few connoisseurs might hear you. You can be crap and half the world raves about you. A violinist in a racy dress romping up and down the stage, engaging her audience in banter - that's what gets people turned on. When Evelyn Glennie performed in KL...she had the audience eating out of her hand...why, because she was so normal....she came in a loose pant suit, smiled, chatted, danced barefoot.....and looked like she was having a hell of a time on the marimba....that's marketability.Kennedy, W Marshall - they're clued in, and the rest had better get their act together. It's an ugly world now...where talent alone is not enough, you also have to look like a water nymph to make album and concert sales. Regards, Anu Nathan 7210