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...performer, champion the public taste competition.
My statistics show this clearly. They go back over some sixty years of addictive concert-going, and by the end of 2005 covered exactly 11,233 music events heard live, containing 73,585 performances of 23,260 different works by 3257 composers. Had computers been invented when I began this pedagogic exercise, my task would have been far easier: as it stands, all data are covered alphabetically by composers, and chronologically by performance date, in a substantial collection of loose-leaf albums which, probably within the next few years, will go, by its request, to the National Library in Canberra.
But the real purpose of this article is to update what my piece in the January-February 1990 issue of Quadrant called "A Popularity Poll for Classical Music". In that article I explained that although the performances I had attended since the mid-1940s obviously covered a tiny fraction of what was actually on offer, they did take into account a pattern of concert-going not so much...
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