Karl Miller <[log in to unmask]>:

>... wondered, what does it take to get a classical music lover who rarely
>attends a concert (I would include myself in that group) to attend a
>concert.

Low ticket prices and percipient scheduling that focusses on local
meal times and transportation exigencies.  Here in Munich you get
full houses, guaranteed, with a goodly proportion of the young filling
the premises, at low-cost final rehearsals that are open to the public.
Also, at the opera, where the peanut galleries are mostly packed, and
mostly by young people, because the price of standing room can range up
a dollar or two from a rock-bottom six bucks., I know, I know--to attain
this, the dissemination of culture must be seen as a public service and
accordingly subsidized by the city or by the state.

Denis Fodor