Don Satz replies to me:

>>I prefer to blame audience laziness, guilt, and resentment.
>
>I understand Steve's position, but I can't go with it very far.  Most
>concert goers are looking for entertainment and find much contemporary
>music alien, hard to focus on, and not entertaining.  I'm not going to
>blame them for seeking only entertainment in a familiar packaging.  That's
>their right, and classical music is not a particularly strong force in
>their lives.

I've nothing to disagree with here.  By all means, people should listen to
what they like.  I do think that if this is the case, however, it's pretty
cheeky to blame composers.

Steve Schwartz