American Symphony Orchestra League president Henry Fogel says orchestras will have to change to survive. “Complex program notes, musicians in white ties and tails and dowagers who hiss if one claps at the wrong time all keep newcomers out of the concert hall, he noted. After recently seeing a conductor wag his finger at concertgoers who applauded too soon, he wondered ‘how many more times those people will actually pay money for tickets so they can be humiliated’?”
