Len Fehskens wrote:

>...  Yes, concert performance may have once been the *only* way for
>listeners to hear the latest music, but that is no longer the case, and
>it's a nonsequitur to assume that because it was once the only way it must
>always be the best way.

When does new music become old music? Also, is not a Beethoven Symphony
new music to someone who has never heard it before?

Karl