[lbo-talk] Pearls before breakfast

[Dennis Claxton]

>Los Angeles is even more philistine than DC

Times change.  Last year Centre Pompidou was saying different.  And 
on the longhair music side there's the King of Opera and one time 
wunderkind Esa-Pekka Salonen, who will soon be succeeded by another 
wunderkind from Venezuela:

http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Communication.nsf/docs/IDD94E8F7A72E2FEC4C125712B00565963/$File/dpLosAngelesEnglish.pdf