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In both cases the hand-wringing about falling ticket or record sales or TV viewers ran on the assumption that the truest measure of a sport's or art's vitality is how many people pay to consumer it. ... Complaining about the lack of popularity is all the sillier if you've taken pains to associate your "product" with BMWs and expensive clothes; those who aim at the $100K+ demographic and should not wonder why they've failed to draw the masses. A splendid antidote to this negativity (I mean the negativity of those I'm complaining about, not my own) is the writing of Alex Ross, the New Yorker's classical music critic, who grows better by the year, and who this month brought out two nice offerings: a great piece in the New Yorker about how the web is good for classical music and a new book that is drawing rave reviews, and which I plan to have in hand shortly.
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