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I wouldn't fit in with New York because of the culture. I will pass on being around a bunch of pretentious people who would oppress me for being a cowboy. I like my line dancing bars, cowboy culture, rodeos and college football….. NY or any yankee city for that matter can't provide it. I would entertain Denver, Nashville or Wyoming though.
Link to stats to back that number up, please. Or is this just another factoid springing out of your head?
And do you have facts to back up your claim that most of American citizens patronize these establishments more than once each year out of sheer desire? No, you don't.
And do you have facts to back up your claim that most of American citizens patronize these establishments more than once each year out of sheer desire? No, you don't.
I take my kids to each of the major museums in Chicago at least one time per year. Plus we have season tickets to the CSO for kids (three shows year). My wife and I have season tickets to the Goodman Theatre. We usually do a few small playhouses/year as well. I don't like Opera, actually, I just fall asleep it's too soothing. So my wife goes with friends.
Just one family, I know others who do similar things.
Looks like there are about 90 performances/events in the regular "season" at the NY Philharmonic. In a 2700 seat theater. Which puts it in the 250K range (a bit less than half who attend NY Jets games in any season). That doesn't count other performances. Such as a summer performance that came up when I Googled it (which ... you know, even you can do when you have questions like that), indicating there were about 63,000 attending one performance. I don't know if they do more than one in any given season.
Oh, and something indicated they'd recently (not sure when that was) played their 15,000th performance ... so in a concert hall the size they currently are in, you're looking at 40 million audience members. Certainly, many are repeats. But still ... even you have to admit that's a lot. Given that it's only one orchestra, and one type of art.
No even in NYC you can still go to Coyote Ugly even though it's tourist area... or there is the Naked Cowboy. You act like it is a Pace Picante sauce commercial.
Ravinia festival which is the home of chicago orchestra only for the summer has over 600k attendance which is more than the entire season attendance of Chicago Bears games.
Just because these hick cities around the country people don't do these kinds of things don't mean the big boys like Chicago, Boston, NY, SF don't have large attendance for these so called "elitist" things.
In the end let's recognize that though there is a complex relationship with city hall, these institutions--museums, orchestras, etc.--are independent organizations. They exist at the behest of your fellow community members, not some abstract "them." So if you're curious about why they're necessary, or why they're not, go out and ask. They're your neighbors. They'll give you a better local answer than someone anonymous on the internet a thousand miles away.
I think what you'll probably find isn't anyone defining proper "culture" but groups trying to create more and different cultural options for their community.
Last edited by Bunjee; 10-31-2013 at 08:28 PM..
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