Have not been to a concert in years. One problem is that, unless you have the bucks to get just the right seats, the sound you often get is not as good as listening to a decent home setup and I can't see my way clear to part with those bucks. Other priorities intrude, like food and shelter for example.
Do you attend classical music concerts?

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Most classical concerts don't care about the music, but more about the heroes (the divine conductor, the divine soloist) and about the break with champagne where the ladies can show off their wardrobes. So I rarely attend concerts—unless they feature big names.

I usually go and hear the ASO in Atlanta once a year and I attend concerts of jazz and classical music at Swartz Auditorium/Emerson Hall at Emory University at least six times a year. The music students at Emory are unbelievably talented and many of those concerts are free. It is surprising to me that there are usually less than 200 in attendance. The five-million dollar Jaeckel Op.45 organ is amazing to hear, even if you are not into organ music.

You haven't really listened to music until you do so in a concert hall. Also, it's always nice to have classical music ringtones so you can show off some of your class whenever the phone rings.

My wife and I started our Carnegie Hall subscription when the hall re-opened. In recent years, prices have gotten so high for the major orchestras, so we have purchased tickets to individual concerts instead. Any yes, the audience does seem to be rather gray nowadays.

Yes, I'm over 30, but I actually got to a lot more when I was under 30. They had good discounts for students and I had more time to track down freebie shows and the like. When you're older and more is going on, it seems like free time gets less as money gets more. In college I saw them all the time, come to think of it, I saw more of all music more back then.
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