Not so much moaning as perplexed:

Two of my main themes are Bach and Mahler, and you recently made history by showing an impressive lack of interest in my post on the John Passion Prom with Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan, even with its fantasy of a world-music version of the Passions! And readers (or rather, non-readers) have been even more underwhelmed by my post on S-Simon Rattle’s Mahler 6 Prom—my first ever totally-unread piece!!! I realise Western Art Music has a rather niche clientele, but WTAF!

Many subscribers to this site may be interested mainly in my China coverage, but other topics usually attract a certain attention too, such as Western Art Music, jazz, world music, film, and so on—as shown in this list of my most popular posts, pleasingly diverse:

I listed some of my own favourite posts here, including A playlist of songs and That is the snake that bit my foot. While I’m here, I note that very few people take advantage of my playlists and roundups to click on the copious links—but hey…

Twitter (as I still like to call it) is now just as disappointing as a vehicle to spread glad tidings. I understand that it has become totally useless under deranged new management, and that people only go there to scroll for cute pics of cats and racist bigotry (ideally combined); but still, one would think that just a few readers might be drawn to such posts by hashtags like #SimonRattle, @BRSO, #Mahler, #BBCRadio3, @bbcproms, #Bach, @MSuzukiBCJ, and #worldmusic. But far from it!!! Hey-ho…