If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em

New Yorker music critic and weblogger Alex Ross provides a link to the text of his keynote speech given several weeks ago at the Chamber Music America national conference, and a link to a piece by Newsday music critic Justin Davidson, both of which (the former only in part) address the question of audience etiquette at the classical music concert, and both of which take the position that, in the domain of so-called high culture, when the barbarians are storming the gates, best to capitulate and submit to their will rather than be destroyed utterly.

Certainly one way of dealing with the problem.