Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2009/01

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevin.fay.home@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] music?
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:41:03 -0500

Colin Touchin posted:

<<<Some 20 years ago, I think, in the UK, the great Times newspaper in its
weekend supplement listed cultural events for the week ahead under various
headings - Cinema, Theatre, etc. but it was then and remains still alarming
that they made and keep this distinction: Music and Classical. After all,
when The Times prints it, it's fact, no? - or view or truth?!>>>

The Seattle papers do this today as well.

I'm not sure that we should read too much into this, however - at least in
the cultural events supplement, newspapers are about advertising, not
criticism. Putting "classical" in a separate section is a reflection that
it's a separate audience/market for the genres.

kjf

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