| From: Steve Fosdick To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: Opera/Classical music too expensive? Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
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.
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