More on Bohemia

Not long

ago I teased — was that the word? —Early Music New York for their CD A

Bohemian Christmas. Of course they meant Christmas in Bohemia, now part of

the Czech Republic, but I thought people new to classical music wouldn’t have a

clue, and might wonder if the CD was for an offbeat artist’s holiday.

So now, to

be fair, I have to note that the CD is the latest in a series from the group:

A Medieval Christmas, A Renaissance Christmas, A Baroque Christmas, and A

Colonial Christmas. So if the target audience is established fans, then of

course the title makes more sense. I could argue that we need to reach beyond

established fans, and as an industry (so to speak), we do. But individual groups

can be forgiven if they don’t deal with all that heavy lifting, and just try to

sell their CDs to the people who already are likely to buy them.