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Almost Time
August 13, 2011 at 12:07 pm by Philip Morris

As the summer season at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center winds down, we can anticipate the board’s annual meeting and subsequent media coverage.

Since the shake up of SPAC’s management 7 years ago, the annual numbers comparison has made front page. How many folks compared to a year before attended the ballet and how many sat on the grass for the Philadelphians and what was the total tickets sales comparison.

I understand the numbers and, after the changes years ago, the great interest in them publicly.

But it’s 7 years later. What about the context?

How does ballet do nationally? How should it do? What is happening with so called “classic” music? Maybe more importantly, how do we, now rated the top nano-technology region in the world, WANT ballet and the orchestra to help define us and make our part of the world as top rated for creativity as for nanotubes?

SPAC is beating all the norms nationally for attendance in two art forms that are suffering. What does THAT mean? What can we/should we do to keep that reality going?

Of course it’s a numbers game, too. But, it’s also a mission game, and, I think, way more important now, after 6 years of numbers success, to be at the top of the headlines.

We want and need SPAC to not just hit the targets, but to define them. And they need the broader community to want that, too.

http://blog.timesunion.com/philipmorris/almost-time/655/

What a blowhard!

I recently attended the Philadelphia orchestra and it was PACKED and the tickets were a reasonable price.

Big difference here Mr. Morris, you are the vampire of Schenectady, sucking the taxpayers dry year after year with 3rd rate off-off-off-off Broadway shows. See, SPAC actually practices what it preaches - its ticket prices are affordable so everyone can have the opportunity to enjoy the arts. Proctors simply lines its pockets with Plex $ and taxpayer-forced support. Proctors isn't an institution for the arts, it's simply a fat leech getting bigger every year with taxpayer blood.

Hey, how are those 2 star-tax exemptions working out for you?

Quoted from rachel72

What a blowhard!

I recently attended the Philadelphia orchestra and it was PACKED and the tickets were a reasonable price.

Big difference here Mr. Morris, you are the vampire of Schenectady, sucking the taxpayers dry year after year with 3rd rate off-off-off-off Broadway shows. See, SPAC actually practices what it preaches - its ticket prices are affordable so everyone can have the opportunity to enjoy the arts. Proctors simply lines its pockets with Plex $ and taxpayer-forced support. Proctors isn't an institution for the arts, it's simply a fat leech getting bigger every year with taxpayer blood.

Hey, how are those 2 star-tax exemptions working out for you?

BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!!

Quoted from rachel72

What a blowhard!

I recently attended the Philadelphia orchestra and it was PACKED and the tickets were a reasonable price.

Big difference here Mr. Morris, you are the vampire of Schenectady, sucking the taxpayers dry year after year with 3rd rate off-off-off-off Broadway shows. See, SPAC actually practices what it preaches - its ticket prices are affordable so everyone can have the opportunity to enjoy the arts. Proctors simply lines its pockets with Plex $ and taxpayer-forced support. Proctors isn't an institution for the arts, it's simply a fat leech getting bigger every year with taxpayer blood.

Hey, how are those 2 star-tax exemptions working out for you?

Right on Rachel! And then his money disappears in unsolved "robberies"? Almost time for a Stratton Fair Share Pilot?-lol. Stop giving this moron more space. A history major masquerading as some "arts" expert. His blog on the TU is the biggest flop of them all. Even the editors of the TU are disgusted with this inflated gas bag who refuses to post negative comments.