Derek Lim wrote: >I went to the local Towers and they were playing Andreas Bocelli's >crossover album. It's the most terrible opera recital I've ever heard, >period, but according to the staff there, "It pays well, and my boss likes >it". It was being snapped up very quickly. Wonder why they couldn't put >Bjorling or di Stephano or even (gasp) Pavorotti... You know that prospects aren't improving when you discover, as did I yesterday, that the closed off section for classical recordings in the Tower store of Northern Virginia now has a sign saying "Classical and New Age". Walter Meyer