tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post4330378813883811862..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Just Another Day in the Death of Classical MusicLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-32190355907849934622008-05-23T15:43:00.000-07:002008-05-23T15:43:00.000-07:00PJWV, a 7:00 pm start time here in Los Angeles wou...PJWV, a 7:00 pm start time here in Los Angeles would be deadly; people would still be on the 10 Freeway by the time the concertmaster walked out to tune up. It's all local, I guess.<BR/><BR/>Re: pricing at SFO. It's high, sure, but there's the upper upper balcony for $25 (last 4 rows, I think) which has great sound. The upper balcony at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for LAO is $30, which = a cheap dinner and a movie, and again, the sound is much better than in the $190 seats.<BR/><BR/>I know people bitch about high prices, but I'm *glad* there's corporations and the well-off that can/will pay $225 to hear a third-rate cast in <I>La Boheme</I> because it funds the weirder stuff that I like. Viva all-Mozart and all-Brahms concerts that fund Birtwistle pieces!Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-67016227844001407522008-05-23T13:18:00.000-07:002008-05-23T13:18:00.000-07:00I will further observe that for many in the work f...I will further observe that for many in the work force -- young and old alike, I presume -- getting to a 7pm or 7:30pm event can be a pretty major difficulty in itself. In such cases I'm inevitably rushing straight from the office, which often means that dinner will be an $8 sandwich the size of a child's fist.<BR/><BR/>Except where Wagner's concerned, I'm perfectly content with an 8pm start at the earliest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-4795729917984600982008-05-23T12:32:00.000-07:002008-05-23T12:32:00.000-07:00I will play devil's advocate and say that staying ...I will play devil's advocate and say that staying up late was a lot easier for me at 25 than it is now.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-82199550719381224192008-05-23T12:04:00.000-07:002008-05-23T12:04:00.000-07:00Mind if I add another little stab at guessing a re...Mind if I add another little stab at guessing a reason for aging audiences, this one involving one of my pet peeves, the standard 8:00 start time(standard out here, anyway: Houston and DC, among other places, seem to be able to start operas regularly at 7:00 or 7:30 without too much inconvenience): Older people also are less likely to have to be at work by 8:00 the next morning. The symphony last night ended at 10:00 and I didn't get to bed until around midnight. As a result I'm not at my best today, I regret to say.Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.com