Steve Schwartz: >I don't mind the concert hall as a museum. I mind that it's an >extremely tiny museum. Me too, but, on the other hand, there are some small museums that don't even have a permanent collection, and function more like galleries. Similarly, there are a few orchestras that perform a much greater than average diversity of repertoire, without repeating ad nauseum. Bernard Chasan: >Perhaps too the restricted repertory reflects a path of least >resistance in a time of long seasons, tours, summer commitments, >and relatively limited rehearsal time. Lets face it. The constraints of time, let alone energy, impose a strictly mathematical limit on how many pieces any particular musical group can play in a season or even over half a dozen seasons. Fortunately, the age of recordings shrinks space and extends time for any listener with the means to sample or collect according to personal taste or whim. Jim Tobin