Just don't suggest he must be doing well financially. Leon Berliner asks, looking at you as if you must have gone bonkers.
Nobody likes classical music.
You have to listen to a profound piece more than once before it becomes the wonder that it is, and people don't do that in their entertainment anymore. They want sound bites. They don't want to sit down for a while and listen to a contribution by an artist of 200 years ago that could move them if only they allowed the music to do so. Berliner's Cornucopia store in Old Town Eureka. Yet against these daunting odds, come January Berliner will start his 16th year in the business.