Mr. Smyth opines: >Stirling on Death of CM: > >>One might be tempted to call it a conspiracy, but it isn't - it is >>many thousand small conspiracies.... > >There are no conspiracies, just people doing things differently than you >would. It's about the Twelve Pitches *not* the Twelve Monkeys. The defense lawyers for Mitsubishi would love to have you on board their team. After all, if there are no such things as conspiracies, then they can't possibly be guilty of conspiring to fix the price for carbide electrodes. So Mr. Smyth, I am afraid that the vast weight of anti-trust law indicates that, contrary to what you seem to feel, there are conspiracies in this world, and they do have an effect, not only on music, but on the price of steel, vitamins and so on. Unfortunately for classical music, far too many of our important decisions are arrived at behind closed doors, by self-selected, self-perpetuating groups of individuals, who act with great regard for their own careers, and little regard for art. Stirling Newberry [log in to unmask] http://www.mp3.com/ssn