Miscellany: Dead or alive pt. 176, etc.

Naxos chief Klaus Heymann, in interviews with Tim Smith and Anne Midgette, sounds bullish on the future of classical recording, although the picture remains chaotic.... Heather Mac Donald, in a long piece for City Journal, also strikes a mainly optimistic note. But if the public "could not be more unequivocal" in rejecting modern music, why have we recently seen sell-out shows of Xenakis, Ligeti, and Varèse? ... In August, Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier guest-curate a month of concerts at...