A Flat Brew…..

My class is winding up soon, I will miss this group.  The students bring articles and blog posts to discuss each class and Amanda brought one about the Night Shift Series put on by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment which takes place late at night, where drinking beer is allowed and encouraged (musicians don’t get too excited)….if you’re in the audience……

My pet peeve, concerts for the young rears its head again (article).  I am thinking though that it’s not only the gimmickry, insincerity, and discrimination that causes these ideas to fail (this one hasn’t yet) which means the potential of losing and not gaining audiences.  The problem of modernizing to accommodate those who want to do numerous things during a concert might lie in the halls themselves.  They maybe multipurpose for the kinds of performances that can be mounted, but are very singular in their accommodations for the audience.  Here is our discussion:

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Think of it this way, if you are only half filling a hall with “regular” patrons and then doing another concert for a half full hall of beverage seekers, isn’t in our interest and way less expensive to find a way to accommodate both groups into one sold out show, by making the hall work?

Take our Honda Odyssey minivan…please! (it does have a racing stripe before any of you decide to pass judgement). The first row has the entertainment system, so we can listen to the iPod or Cd’s, at the same time a DVD is playing on a flip down screen in the second row for our kids to watch (with their own remote and infrared headphones). If Honda can work it out in the confined space of a van, can’t different ways to watch a concert be worked out in a 2000 seat hall?  Then again Honda also built the Asimo robot that can conduct!