Karl Miller: >Actually there has been a great deal written about this. I am currently >reading two books on the subject. Would you mind giving author & title info? This is an interesting subject. >...perhaps some of the factors you mention may be appropriate to the >discussion, however, for me, art music is not the same as popular music.... I agree; in fact, that was my point. The original poster, Larry Zaidan, was trying to "learn something [about how to better program classical music] from how 'popular music' concerts are done.". I was submitting my opinion that the two are so different that a comparison would not be useful. Richard