Coughing at a Concert

OFTEN TIMES, a classical music concert will be recorded, and sold in music stores, or on the internet, or however music is being sold these days. Are music recrdings being sold these days, or stolen? IN our fast paced society, one loses track, don't you know? Assembling an entire symphony orchestra in a studio and recording Beethoven's 9th can be a bit expensive, so, we record the live concerts, and then market them. Musicians deserve to make a decent living too, just like the rest of us. Research has shown that the average person coughs at least twice as much as a classical music concert than anywhere else. That goes for everybody, at all concerts, across the board. Twice as much coughing as in the world at large. Are people trying to get noticed? Do scratchy throats appear in crowds? At a classical music concert, say, Beethoven, Mozart, or whatever, you generally want the entire audience to be perfectly quiet the entire performance, because even a small sound can be an annoying distraction. that's just the way it is. And yet, people in general, those who go to such concerts, who tend you might think to be the cultured sophisticated upper crust, generally, cough twice as much as anywhere else, or, all other places, averaged. This information was presented on National Public Radio, doubtless from some study conducted at Harvard, or some ppace. Pretty remarkable, really. Oftentimes in modern classical recordings i hear a cough or two...or three... Back in the late sixties and early seventies, as i recall, one never heard the slightest extraneous sound on the entire vinyl record album. Maybe back then they were all recorded in the studio, eh? Or maybe culture was a bit less rude.