tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post7346630540600799605..comments2008-02-11T07:23:13.637ZPliablenoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-25143346668432761422008-02-11T07:23:13.637Z2008-02-11T07:23:13.637ZTalking of "fashionable schemes" didn't Morton Gould also use a rapping narrator and a singing fire department in commissions for for the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony? <BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_GouldPliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-77028117342953375212008-02-11T00:12:00.000Z2008-02-11T00:12:00.000ZNot sure a tapdance concerto is the best example of a "fashionable scheme." Morton Gould wrote one half a century ago, right?Dan Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379073869436839786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-28130211775533776872008-02-10T19:56:00.000Z2008-02-10T19:56:00.000ZI was having just this very same conversation last night after an appearance of the New York's Bang on a Can All-Stars at the Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco, where the ticket price was $45.<BR/><BR/>Now ok, they have to bring themselves and their equipment 3000 miles to get here. But the concert should have been sold out ... this group is famous enough ... but it was just 3/4 full. <BR/><BR/>Would it have been sold out if the ticket was $20? I think so. True, people pay more for a rock concert, but this was no rock concert. <BR/><BR/>I've watched concert prices rise consistently over the past 5 years. Events that were $25 are now $50. (E.g. Jordi Savall in a Berkeley church.)<BR/><BR/>Now you've got to make hard choices according to one's budget. <BR/><BR/>Trouble with new music concerts tho is that you rarely get what you pay for.rchrdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173134583891999855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-66499331705418286852008-02-10T14:06:16.823Z2008-02-10T14:06:16.823Z<I>Email received:</I><BR/><BR/>A system, implemented in Brussels since many years by the Flemish community are concert vouchers ( “ chèques culture”). <BR/><BR/>You ask for it, you get them ( = 5 ) for free. And they’re covering minimum half of the ticket price( even more).<BR/><BR/>It’s reasoning the other way around. A means to fill audiences.<BR/><BR/>BTPliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-16075564131149796222008-02-10T13:15:00.000Z2008-02-10T13:15:00.000ZI fully agree and as supporting evidence would like to quote the example of “La Folle Journée de Nantes” Now 12 years old, it provides the opportunity for provincial audiences to attend many live performances from world class musicians over a fun packed week. It’s something of a sport, first to get the tickets before they are all sold out and then to dash from one venue to the next of this very tight programme. Prices are typically €5.00, or even less, per performance and there are no empty seats. <BR/><BR/>http://www.europeimages.com/en/programmes/4639-folle-journee-de-nantes-la/Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08328031909497188613noreply@blogger.com