Christopher Webber wrote:

>If the Concert Halls (never mind the Penguins) want to stay alive, they'd
>do well to bear this in mind and improve their coverage of the stuff we
>actually seem to be buying.

But are the buyers and the concert/opera goers the same people? I have the
feeling that most c/o goers do not buy an appreciable amount of music.

Beyond that, what are we buying? Whenever I look at the classical charts
on the web, including Billboard, the big sellers *do* correspond fairly
well to to concert programming.  Those big sellers tend to be cameo,
compilation, and theme recordings.

Don Satz
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