At 5:41 PM -0500 1/30/06, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 30 Jan 2006 at 9:48, David Froom wrote:

 So, Carl, yes you are exactly right.  Get rid of high prices and
 snootiness, and classical music of every stripe flourishes.

Er, when somebody pays the musicians so that the audience doesn't
have to pay.

Which gets us back to the US vs. Europe comparison, since in the US,
public subsidy is relatively rare.

Is that Maryland series a Green Sheet gig? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you won't know the answer!) The report said union scale, but didn't say union contract or union musicians.

John


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