Want to see something totally ridiculous?

[RebLem]

Per ArkivMusic, the recording of the Bach B Minor Mass featuring the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, PA, USA is available in the USA only as Import CDs.

Bach: Mass In B Minor / Funfgeld, Bethlehem Bach Choir, Etc

Release Date: 05/19/1998
Label: Dorian Recordings Catalog #: 90253 Spars Code: DDD
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: William Sharp, Tamara Crout Matthews, Rosa Lamoreaux, Marietta Simpson, Frederick Urrey,
Daniel Lichti
Conductor: Greg Funfgeld
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Bach Festival Orchestra

Number of Discs: 2
Recorded in: Stereo
Length: 1 Hours 48 Mins.

Import CD $34.99

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Individual Track Details:

1. Mass in B minor, BWV 232 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: William Sharp (Baritone), Tamara Crout Matthews (Soprano), Rosa Lamoreaux (Soprano),
Marietta Simpson (Mezzo Soprano), Frederick Urrey (Tenor), Daniel Lichti (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Greg Funfgeld
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Bach Festival Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1747-1749; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 5/1997
Venue: First Presbyterian Church, Bethlehem, PA
Language: Latin

[Corlyss_D]

Okay. What am I missing? Looks fairly straightforward to me.

[Gary]

2-3 Days: Usually ships in 2-3 days. This title will be shipped from Canada and may take longer for delivery to U.S. addresses. Express shipments will be delivered via Standard UPS - Next Day and 2nd Day guarantees do not apply for this title.

I'm guessing something that's shipped from Canada to the U.S. shouldn't be considered an import?

[RebLem]

Okay. What am I missing? Looks fairly straightforward to me.

Hmm, Corlyss, my thought is that since this is a recording by an American ensemble, it ought to be of primary interest to American collectors, but it is availabe only as an import.

I didn't notice the part about Canada, but I just suppose, perhaps wrongly, that that is where the nearest storage facility and/or CD factory is. I don't think, again perhaps wrongly, things from Canada have been considered "imports" since the NAFTA treaty. It looks to me like it is being primarily marketed elsewhere, but I could be wrong.

[jbuck919]

I think he means that if it was recorded in Bethlehem, PA, why does it have be imported from another country?

[Ralph]

I think he means that if it was recorded in Bethlehem, PA, why does it have be imported from another country?

*****

Why indeed?

[Corlyss_D]

Okay. What am I missing? Looks fairly straightforward to me.

Hmm, Corlyss, my thought is that since this is a recording by an American ensemble, it ought to be of primary interest to American collectors, but it is availabe only as an import.

Oh. Okay. You've a faster wit than mine, Charlie Reb.

[SueCan]

This sounds like pharmaceuticals. You make them, we sell them back to you. Maybe it's the northern hoarding instinct due to long winters.

[Lance]

This sounds like pharmaceuticals. You make them, we sell them back to you. Maybe it's the northern hoarding instinct due to long winters.

Well, come to think of it, CDs/music are like drugs to me. It really doesn't matter from whence they come. In fact Canada offers a lot of CDs we can't get in the USA. Actually, I'm very much in love with the cultural scene in Canada. They are way ahead of us in regard to their young people being interested in classical music, their training, concert scene, etc.