<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Paul Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(*) I was frankly amazed at the number of performances of music I<br>
consider basically dead that I would see advertised every week in the<br>
U- and S-Bahn stations in Berlin. The idea that there were still<br>
audiences for the sort of music that consumed the body and most of the<br>
soul of "classical" music in the middle half of the 20th century was<br>
just astounding to me, coming from a US-centric viewpoint. Berlin is<br>
bigger than Philadelphia, and is buzzing with an incredibly vibrant<br>
art scene, but still - I doubt if you could find more than 1 or maybe<br>
2 performances per week of contemporary "classical/art/serious" (pick<br>
your favorite un-label) composition here in Phila. Some weeks,<br>
probably none at all. And almost never will any of them happen in<br>
Phila.'s big concert halls. I wonder how many of the young art crowd<br>
now filling apartments all over Berlin are really into that stuff<br>
anyway?<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Here in Russia, Moscow, there are lots of classical music performances. They are in medium<br>size halls usually but they are full. I can say that a lot of people in the audience seem<br>
to enjoy it. I don't know if younger people in modern Russia are a lot "into classical"<br>music, for example, but I do see sincere interest to it.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Louigi Verona<br><a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/">http://www.louigiverona.ru/</a><br>