At the risk of being Provincial again (with a big P), I'd like to call attention to *two* Bay Area music directors who do a great job in presenting contemporary music while not bankrupting their organizations -- Kent Nagano and Michael Tilson Thomas. Watch the MTT interview this Sunday on "Sixty Minutes." Re.: Don's point about who stays away and who doesn't, SFS actually picked up a great deal of business with MTT's more adventurous programming than it had with his predecessors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Janos Gereben/SF, CA [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 12:49 PM Subject: Re: Ustvolskaya's Strange Symphonies >Don Satz writes: > >>I assume that those who attend concerts with any regularity do so >>because they expect the "traditional" programming. But couldn't there >>be a different potential audience which stays away because of that type >>of programming who would flock to the concert hall if the programming did >>become more adventurous and feature more of the "obscure"? > >There are plenty of musical directors / conductors who are deeply involved >personally with modern music, eg Maazel, Rattle,. But tmostly they cater >to the guidance of the managerial caste because they realize that in Big >Music, it's the only way to survive handsomely. In distressingly mundane >terms, __there's a market out there__. The folks who are expert in this >market and have stacked programing accordingly. In another posting I have >pointed out where management thinks it can accomodate modern programming. >It's not exactly in the favelas. > >Denis Fodor >