Posted by js on July 01, 2003 at 19:52:49:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "How to Kill Orchestras" - NY Times posted by richard on July 01, 2003 at 18:22:27:
I'm really referring to stuff that many consider "schlock" like Overture to Act III of Lohengrin, William Tell, Overture to 'Love of Three Oranges'...so-called "over-played" (but not actually!) stuff like that...
...Maybe, rather than filling up a couple of subscript. concerts with this stuff, "POPS" concerts could (instead of featuring some has-been country-western 55-year-old fat chick, etc.) be filled with these sorts of tunes - no "special (washed-up) guest star" but "all orchestral".
I would predict sell-outs.