Randy:
I think the point is that public radio station are able to sell
classical instrumental music but not vocal music, and that is
confusing question.
>In a message dated 10/23/00 11:04:51 AM Central Daylight Time,
>LMorgan923@a... writes:
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><< 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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Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA
Professor of Voice, Pedagogy
School of Performing Arts
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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