Someone from an orchestra suggested that I shouldn’t have talked about changes in cultural weather. If classical music isn’t so popular now, or people aren’t buying subscriptions to orchestra concerts, this isn’t (my correspondent thinks) a change in cultural weather. It’s a change in cultural climate. Weather changes daily; climate changes last for centuries. So a change in climate is far more serious — and that, my correspondent feels, is what we’re facing now.
I’ve since found that this distinction is much debated among orchestra marketing directors.