John Smyth wrote: >When I managed the Classical Room of a CD store in Davis, CA, I found >thAt Early Music, Baroque Music, and Classical went out the door the most. >... Some customers were obviously connoisseurs and were investigating >Early Music or HIP Bar/Classical because they had listened to everything >else. ... This really depends on the demographic makeup of your customers. Amongst experienced listeners the cut is certainly the other way round. As I've mentioned before, try selling a pre-romantic CD to a secondhand store. They know that it's much easier for them to sell later works. >Students used to popular music, listened to in less than perfect >environments, (car, small portable at home on the dresser), find it's an >easier jump to the similar mono-emotional, mono-dynamic, mono-rhythmic >elements of Baroque and Classical. Wow! This might apply to some composers from these periods but I would certainly exclude Haydn from the list. >If anything from the later eras sold, it was the blockbusters like Carmina >Burana, Sheherezade, etc; (on Naxos, sigh) and I soon had to quit stocking >CD's like the lesser known works of Vaughan Williams, for example. The >owner of the store said I had to quit stocking for *me* and start stocking >for the customer. Sounds like your customers were mainly pop music temporary crossovers. Bob Draper [log in to unmask]