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Old 05-29-2010, 12:48 AM
 
Location: Atlanta ,GA
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[quote=dv1033;14381588]Unfortunately or fortunately ATL's culture comes from its media prominence, not from it's fine arts and that's not a knock on ATL's scene. Houston has a vibrant and well endowed fine art scene, both public and private. Houston and ATL have areas in which they its about even.

Atlanta does not promote itself as an art mecca but just as a city with arts.

Cleveland has one of the best fine arts scenes in America.But how many people overall think of Cleveland as the place for Arts?

This was mentioned in an article found and quoted as stating (in regards to orchestras in America and there prominence over on another):

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The term "Big Five" is today considered by many to be outdated, but its use has become so common and its meaning so synonymous with the quality of achievement that so many American orchestras strive for, that its use now continues well past the specifics of why it became fashionable and meaningful. A variety of music critics, at both the local and national level, have written thoughtful and passionate articles proposing new members to the upper echelon of American orchestras (including Michael Walsh in Time Magazine, 1983; Tim Page in Newsday, 1990; and Mark Swed in the Los Angeles Times, 2005). The evidence of recordings and reviews suggests that several orchestras have at times risen to this exalted level of performance, with today's Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, most frequently mentioned or praised by music critics nationally.


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With a budget expected to increase to US $50 million with the completion of its new Amphitheatre, the ASO has become one of the six or seven largest orchestras in America, by budget size.

Big Five (orchestras) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Its recordings are widely praised and have won many honors, including twenty-six Grammy awards as of 2006.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Atlanta has had a STRONGER history of being led by the most highly reguarded conductors in the world.

Robert Shaw-Received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded to a conductor, the Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award for Service to American Music; the George Peabody Medal for outstanding contributions to music in America, the Gold Baton Award of the American Symphony Orchestra League for "distinguished service to music and the arts, the American National Medal of Arts, France's Officier des Arts et des Lettres, England's Gramophone Award, and was a 1991 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors
Yoel Levi-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoel_Levi
Robert Spano-Robert Spano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




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Atlanta Ballet, founded in 1929, has continuously operated for longer than any other ballet company in the United States.


New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlanta Ballet
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Old 05-29-2010, 01:27 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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1. New York
2. Chicago
3. Boston
4. Los Angeles
5. Washington
6. San Francisco
7. Philadelphia
8. Houston
9. Cleveland
10. Minneapolis
^^ This is the list I agree with the most.
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Old 05-29-2010, 10:25 PM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Los Angeles is big on contemporary art. It is the first "focus city" in ARCOmadrid which only does "focus countries"...until now.

L.A. is on display at the big European art fair ARCOmadrid - Los Angeles Times

I must say that I was impressed with the Concert Hall. The one in Dallas has an organ! Houston needs an updated facility for its symphony.

The Getty was much better than the MFAH. It's mediocre because it doesn't contain at least one famous work of art such as Louis XIV's "legs" portrait.
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Old 05-29-2010, 10:37 PM
 
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Los Angeles is big on contemporary art.
Heard of MoMA?
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Old 05-29-2010, 11:12 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Heard of MoMA?
What does that matter? Doesn't mean LA isn't big on contemporary art.
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Old 05-29-2010, 11:46 PM
 
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The Getty was much better than the MFAH. It's mediocre because it doesn't contain at least one famous work of art such as Louis XIV's "legs" portrait.
The Getty has a large endowment. That's not to say MFAH doesn't ($780m), but I would be happy to see more prominent works there.

For comparison, The Menil has Magritte's "Golconda," "The Dominion of Light," Warhol's "Big Campbell Soup Can," and splashings of Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Dali, Ernst, Miro, and Duchamp - and it's probably the size of MFAH's hallway. I kid.
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Old 05-30-2010, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Long Beach
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Boston's MFA [museum of fine arts] is the second largest museum in the Western Hemishpere by collection, with 450,000 artifacts. Only the Met is larger. the Art Institute for example only has 250,000 pieces, the Met has 2million...

With the MFA, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the ICA, Harvard's musuems, MIT's museums, plus all the other university musuems--Boston I'm sure has one of the largest collections of art and stuff of any city on the side of the Atlantic.

Then it's fine music, the BSO, the Pops, the HH Society, the number of music conservatories, the Berkley College, plus all the universities with drama programs, I'm definitely sure Boston produces as many performers as New York.

Third spot is good, but I'd bet number two is better. I would concede that it could be tied with SF/Chicago.
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