Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both candidates proposed using the funds to sponsor a large event, such as a concert or spring festival. They also considered giving the money to small committees...
Three weeks ago in San Diego, California, members of the city's symphony orchestra performed what could be their last concert ever. Because of pervasive financial troubles, the orchestra's board of directors will declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy if the organization does not raise more money soon--and money does not appear to be forthcoming...
Something is wrong when a rock band composed of three adolescent boys draws crowds whose enthusiasm dwarfs that of those who routinely attend symphony concerts in the nation's sixth-largest city. Something is wrong with a society which places more value on a band titled "Immature," than on Bach partitas or Mendelssohn songs without words. Something is deeply wrong, and if our generation does not act soon to draw listeners to the nation's echoing, empty concert halls, we will lose irreplaceable works of beauty...
Even in Boston, a town with culture and history oozing from its cobblestone streets, the crowds are rarely enough to make the ornate Symphony Hall feel full. At a concert last mouth featuring the works of Bach and Vivaldi, the first and second balconies were woefully deserted. While the Boston Symphony will likely never declare bankruptcy, even here we must keep an eye out for shrinking crowds...
Cast your thoughts ahead to 30 years from now. Will our generation be the patrons of the symphony orchestras? I cannot imagine those who now listen exclusively to Nirvana and Live fixing a tie or donning a dress to attend a concert at an antiquated City Hall...