Stirling writes:

>>Quick anecdote: Last summer at the Santa Fe Opera I attended the ...
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>For those who are keeping count:
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>There have been 1,233,741 posts decrying audiences for not having the same
>taste as the poster.

I think there's something more going on.  In other words, I attend plenty
of concerts with music on it I dislike (mostly from the 18th and 19th
centuries), but I don't walk out.  Perhaps I should start.  And do it as
noisily as possible.

Steve Schwartz