Klarinet Archive - Posting 000042.txt from 2005/01

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Your Hit Parade
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:15:25 -0500

I wrote:

> I wonder if the "top 100 classical" by
> recording *sales* (rather than people who call
> in their votes) would have any surprises in it?

Donna Higgins wrote:

> With so much crossover these days, how
> would you define "classical"? Some people
> would consider Charlotte Church's CDs to be
> "classical" music. <shudder>

Heh! I suppose I meant music that a classical music station would
play.

Gary=A0Van=A0Cott wrote:

> How would you do this? Most CDs contain
> more than one work.

True, it's probably not a practical idea. My point was that polls
which ask people to call in (as opposed to polls of a randomly-selected
population of sufficient size) are notoriously inaccurate.

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