Bach, Beethoven... Buffett?

Philadelphia Inquirer: "It's not as if our orchestras didn't deserve support at the highest level of giving. The U.S. has a larger concentration of great and merely wonderful orchestras than any other nation - a trove worth mindful cultivation. And they need help. For several decades, the American orchestra has almost defined itself by fund-raising against the backdrop of crisis. The implied slogan: Give, or we'll disappear."