Thanks for posting this. Yes, something on every page.
Tickets to the SFO in 1949 were priced from $2.75 to 60 cents. According to an inflation calculator – that would be between $26.11 to $5.70 in 2011 dollars. Actual tickets for today’s SFO concert are priced from $140 to $15.
In other words, according to David’s calculations above here, wisely taken inflation into account, the cost of the tickets, on average, quadrupled. We also know that the San Francisco Symphony performs more concerts now than they did in 1949 and their attendance figures are among the best in the country. Apparently, people are willing to pay three to five times more to enjoy classical concerts than they did 60-something years ago. Does not look to me like this art form is dead or even close to dying, does it, David? By the way, SFSymphony’s programs are some of the most omnivorous among the American orchestras and include a good amount of music written during the last hundred years.
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Thanks for posting this. Yes, something on every page.
Tickets to the SFO in 1949 were priced from $2.75 to 60 cents. According to an inflation calculator – that would be between $26.11 to $5.70 in 2011 dollars. Actual tickets for today’s SFO concert are priced from $140 to $15.
In other words, according to David’s calculations above here, wisely taken inflation into account, the cost of the tickets, on average, quadrupled. We also know that the San Francisco Symphony performs more concerts now than they did in 1949 and their attendance figures are among the best in the country. Apparently, people are willing to pay three to five times more to enjoy classical concerts than they did 60-something years ago. Does not look to me like this art form is dead or even close to dying, does it, David? By the way, SFSymphony’s programs are some of the most omnivorous among the American orchestras and include a good amount of music written during the last hundred years.