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Boys Will Be Boisterous

6.20.07 @ 12:01AM

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Bernie Gilbert may suffer the ravages of the proletariat at a Classical Music performance: "But unfortunately, you can't tell thirty or forty people in a concert hall to stop clapping." At least Mr. Gilbert also admits to breaking this sacred rule recently. Since all that's now on the table let's count our blessings: They may not applaud on cue, but at least they're there!

In the metro-Detroit area, commercially viable Classical radio is kaput. It does not draw enough listeners to generate the necessary ad revenue to maintain a radio station, nor does Blues or Jazz. They are watered down with selective POP music or ostensible "R & B" in order to keep a few listeners bringing the commercial cash in. Metro-Detroit purists have to tune into our Canadian brethren or public radio, which is forced upon us through taxpayer subsidies.

I'm not knockin' the tunes at all! But the cash is elsewhere, and that's what radio station owners are chasing.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

Just to clarify things, is it critical to my bona fides as a conservative that I give a crap one way or the other whether people clap between movements of a symphony?
-- Glen Hoffing
Shamong, New Jersey

INTENTIONAL WALK
Re: H. Pippins's letter (under "Take Me Out of the Ball Game") in Reader Mail's Hold the Applause:

I have to agree with H. Pippins, baseball is boring, all the players do is scratch and spit, very slow game.
-- Elaine Kyle

NO FREE LUNCH
Re: Jim Sweeney's letter (under "Down on the Farm") in Reader Mail's Hold the Applause:

As to Jim Sweeney's response:

Good point. Next time you're hungry, eat a shirt sandwich.
-- Mark Andreasen
Stammon Farms

IN SUM
Re: Hal G.P. Colebatch's The Fruits of Multiculturalism:
Excellent piece.
-- Doug Santo
Pasadena, California

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