TALES FROM A CLASSICAL MUSIC STORE

Who shops at a classical music store? There are “the Toscanini freaks and the Riccardo Muti-Walks-on-Water squad, who will pay anything – anything – to own a CD of their hero doing the stick-waving equivalent of singing in the shower.” Some are “a little less than erudite. Many come in search of ‘The Fat Guy’ (Luciano Pavarotti), ‘The Blind Guy’ (Andrea Bocelli) or ‘The English Kid’ (Charlotte Church, who’s Welsh, not English, by the way).” There was one confused man who came in looking for “WOCTAKOBNY” (or Shostakovich – in Cyrillic lettering.) Baltimore Sun