Edson Tadeu Ortolan wrote:

>After I read this matter my question is:
>21st century: is the end of the Classical Music?

Sigh!  No, that would be the 20th century.  If I had a dollar for every
expert I've heard over the last 50 years proclaiming that the classical
music industry would have disappeared within 5-10 years, I could bail
out the Calgary Philharmonic and the Ottawa Senators single-handed.  (You
do understand, I'm sure, that the end of professional sport is nigh.)

Richard,
who now is part of that eternal sea of grey heads proving the imminent
demise of CM