In a message dated 10/23/00 11:04:51 AM Central Daylight Time, LMorgan923@a... writes: LMorgan923@a... writes:
<< The local public radio station here dropped the Met broadcasts four years ago and replaced it with sports (!!!!!!) programming. Granted, it was football and basketball coverage of the university of which they are a part, but still! They dropped the sports programming within the year because of the huge uproar from their listeners, but have only this year returned to programming the Met broadcasts. The letter I sent them when they made that hideous decision contained some hard numbers from Opera America on the growth of the opera audience in the US. Amazing to me. >>
Why does this amaze anyone? Classical music and opera are, and will continue to be, a very small percentage of the marketplace. I love it too, but business is business and if no one is buying they're not buying.
Randy Buescher
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