I just received the new brochure from the Spencer Theater in Alto New Mexico. It's a two and a half hour drive from here and it's a nice theatre - seats about six hundred. We have played there twice. The announcement of the upcoming season got me thinking that it didn't start out this way. When the theatre was inaugurated, a few years back, the main items on the menu consisted of top-of-the-line classical concert artists from the U.S. and abroad - the thing is well-funded. Now, looking at the sixteen dates on the calendar, there is not a single classical music show scheduled. It's all about Annie, Oliver, The Pajama Game, Bye Bye Birdie, Footloose, Crystal Gayle, etc.. Why are they like that? Maybe they got tired of so much classical stuff? As the saying goes, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Perhaps we'll never play there again. The last time was when we played for Olga Kern, the piano player. She turned out to be a surly, childish, arrogant, and almost condescending person. Why does the Spencer Theater hate classical music now?