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RE: schmaltz, pandering and Klezmatics

Sara also said:
>
>       Relevantly, Anthony Tommasini had a depressingly ignorant
>review in the NY Times a couple weeks ago, about a Stravinsky festival
>in San Francisco.  He spoke of symphony orchestras' declining cachet
>among the under-30s, a trend every classical-music pundit laments. 
>Then he MARVELED at the crowd of young folk at this Stravinsky show. 
>How could it be, he wondered, that you can't pay most 25-year-olds to
>go see Mozart's Jupiter symphony performed, but they'll shell out
>bucks for newmusic? 

How long ago did Stravinsky die? 28 years? Doesn't exactly seem 'modern' to
me!
                EK

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