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From: Steve Fosdick
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Subject: Re: Opera/Classical music too expensive?
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:50:51PM -0800, lilsoprano . wrote:

> It strikes me as strange that this is the public sentiment not only in the
> UK but the US as well, when my impression is that the same public would
> shell out just as much, if not more, for seats to a stadium show by their
> favorite singers/rappers/performers/whatevers.

You are probably quite right that it is live music by established
performers that it expensive rather then specifically classical music.

Having attend both I do think that pop/rock music seems to loose less
from being recorded than classical music does and so perhaps people
are more aware of the cost of the classical performances.