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 [log in to unmask]