Philip A. Todd, University of Kentucky School of Music
Eastern Kentucky University Department of Mass Communication
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"Men profess to be lovers of music but for the most part they give no
evidence in their opinions and lives that they have ever heard it.
It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) - Journal, 5 August 1851
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Subject: Moonlight Sonata
from the NYTimes today:
"A few weeks ago the most popular file to be downloaded from MP3.com was,
surprisingly, a classical composition, Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata,
performed by Richard Morris, a 66-year-old pianist from Cincinnati. The
piece has been downloaded almost 100,000 times in the last month, mostly by
people with Internet addresses in corporate offices and government agencies,
said the music's producer, Mike Wathen. (For comparison, a classical album
is considered a substantial success if it sells 70,000 copies as a new
release.) And all this attention despite a reviewer's comment in American
Record Guide that the recording was the worst he had heard in years."
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/05download.html