I actually want to provide just a few very brief thoughts on a slightly different subject: you. I normally write something about the music from the concerts we just heard, but I would rather give you a few impressions I have of the audience members instead. Don’t be nervous or embarrassed: it’s all good, really.
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Economic recession is bad enough. Bean counters and politicians tell us almost daily that now is the time to cut back, to eliminate non-essentials from our spending, which inevitably means the arts. What I find almost as bad is the way in which the discussion of music in the popular press has now become inextricably [...]