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Sometimes I am disappointed because the music sounds better at home.
Though the recordings sell in <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR201001... numbers</A>, the real thing continues to thrive. Do you attend classical music concerts?
I live in Reading—only 30 minutes by train to London, which has several excellent concerts every week plus the Proms. Modern US composers seem to get younger crowds—Glass last week, Adams and Golijov next. Thank you to Nonesuch, DG, Naxos, etc for recording our culture.