“Do you think it would be possible for you to, er, play a program maybe, um, I don’t know, more….accessible?”

“What do you mean? I programmed Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Bartok…”

“Well, um, that’s the thing… the Bartok, well, I don’t know, for our audiences… um, it might be too OUT THERE, too contemporary, if you know what I mean…maybe something more well-known, a more familiar piece…”

……sigh……