At our Civic Centre a few years ago there was a pianist, who...

At our Civic Centre a few years ago there was a pianist, who from memory was Ronald Farren-Price.

The tickets for Pensioners and Students was all of $15.00 and the Centre was only half full and most of those were the "Blue Rinse Set" who had been bused in from their retirement homes.

I could not help thinking here is one of Australia's foremost pianists and even if you were not mad on piano recitals, what about all the children, why did their parents not take the opportunity to expose their children to a different type of music.

The only way that we develop is to experience different things and then and only then can we say, no it's not for me.

It is fact of life that with the TV "music" shows where they manufacture a winner and tell you the winner is fabulous, they have taken away the peoples ability to make up their own minds about the quality of the performance, when in fact if the public thought about them and made their own decisions away from all the hype and pressure from the TV adds, they should be saying it's garbage

So the fellow playing at the train station just did not have the TV marketing campaign to tell the public that they had to stop and listen because this man is fabulous