Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Originally Posted By: Notes Norton
If being in a cover band is a sell-out, then every symphony orchestra in the world are sell-outs wink


Are we going back to that horribly skewed analogy? Is a symphony orchestra playing for a bar tab at Joe's Corner Bar and Slot Car Track?


No but that's not the point. A symphony orchestra is covering someone else's tunes - therefore a cover band - therefore as some people have stated - sell-outs.

They work for a conductor who tells them what to play and how to play it, while the conductor takes his/orders from the board of directors who try to figure out what tunes bring in the largest amount of ticket sales. And that's why we get so much Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and the other pop stars of the classical field. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it means we don't hear much (if any) other great composers like Suk, Sgambati, Gliere, and so on.

And isn't that what most people call a sell-out?

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