Gary Brain, a composer and conductor based in Paris,emailed about the French classical music audience. In my previous French audience post, I'd talked about a French government study that, supposedly, showed that the audience in France is quite young,...

I went to both New York City Opera productions -- Don Giovanni and Hugo Weisgall's Esther -- in their fall season, their first since returning from the abyss. And good news -- the company is definitely back. Definitely a sense of something going on,...

The radio world thought it knew how many people listened to each radio format. But it turns out that this was wrong. Up to now, radio ratings have been calculated the old-fashioned way. A sample of people kept diaries in which they wrote down what...

From time to time, people have mentioned in comments here a French government study that supposedly shows that the French classical music audience is very young, with a median age of 38. I've never been able to find the source for this number. From...

The National Endowment for the Arts has just released what -- at least for the classical music world -- looks like a bombshell: its 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (the latest in a series of surveys it's been issuing since 1982). Now,...