Marcus Moroney wrote in response to me:

>> "Stars" pull in audiences; orchestra members do not.
>
>As an "orchestra member", I take great offence to this.

I state a fact, and Marcus gets offended.  There is a very
limited number of classical musicians, conductors, and singers who have
significant marketability as "individual" artists.  I was looking at this
solely from an objective economic/transactional perspective without any
value judgements attached.  The market decides who gets what and how much
of it; I just observe the process and results.  The market does not decide
the "value" of anything; value runs much deeper than economic price.  The
fact that a well-known artist can command a large fee says nothing about
his/her value relative to an orchestra member.

Don Satz
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