Jon Johanning wrote: >The Philadelphia Orchestra has announced that next year, in their >centennial season, they will program exclusively 20th-century >music(including a number of new commissions). This does surprise me. I would think that most concert-goers would want greater time-period variety during a concert season. For myself, I would want greater variety for one concert, something like: Pinnock and his band for a Brandenberg Concerto, Uchida for a Mozart piano sonata, Bylsma/Bilson for a Beethoven violin sonata, Conlon doing some Zemlinsky, Hamelin playing Medtner, and Ursula Oppens doing some Cage. I'd pay whatever the price was to see this concert. Don Satz [log in to unmask]