Interesting article in the NYTimes last Sunday (March 4, 2007) about iTunes being one of the futures of classical music.
Quoting from the article: Zarin Mehta, the New York Philharmonic's president and executive director, had this to say about the lone compact disc released by the NY Phil last year:
The CD is “a vanity project, if you like, for sponsors,” Mr. Mehta said in a recent phone conversation. Oh, he added, it will also be sold in stores. “But how many stores are there?”
When an orchestra sees a CD release on a major label as something negligible, you know that the classical recording industry is not in Kansas anymore.
Wow. How true!
The full column, by Anne Midgette, is here.
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