Karl Miller wrote:

>Even if classical music was given lip service in the past...maybe it was
>just me, but at least the names of a Toscanini, a Horowitz, a Heifetz
>seemed to be part of somewhat common vocabulary...or maybe it was just
>common to those I ran around with...or maybe it was just marketing?...

How could this possibly be this case?  Do you really believe that the
NBC Symphony Orchestra was formed and broadcast to homes all over the
USA for the purpose of entertaining just a small elite audience?  I also
remember TV broadcasts of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (was it the
DuMont Televisoin Network, Channel 5 in the NYC area, which I had the
priviledge of watching and hearing on my parents 12" B/W *DuMont* console
TV?).

"Norman M. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]>

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