{"id":499,"date":"2009-07-07T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=499"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:26:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T04:26:52","slug":"when-the-price-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"When the Price is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sedgwick Clark<\/p>\n<p>Did you see the piece in Musicalamerica.com on July 3 about 10,000 Londoners braving the record-breaking swelter to watch a free open-air live screening in Trafalgar Square of the Royal Opera House&#8217;s &#8220;La traviata&#8221; with Ren\u00e9e Fleming and Joseph Calleja? A further 10,000 watched on 15 open-air screens across the U.K. Moreover, the performance was also screened live into 177 cinemas around the U.K. and Europe, drawing 20,000 more opera fans.<\/p>\n<p>Who says that classical music is dead?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Sign of the Times . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York Philharmonic press\u00a0release: July 7, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC TO INTRODUCE &#8220;MOBILE GIVING&#8221;<br \/>\nAT 2009 CONCERTS IN THE PARKS, PRESENTED BY DIDI AND OSCAR SCHAFER, CONDUCTED BY ALAN GILBERT,\u00a0 JULY 14-17, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Audience Members Can Support the Philharmonic and Concerts in the Parks Through $5 Donations Made by Text Message<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=499\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sedgwick Clark Did you see the piece in Musicalamerica.com on July 3 about 10,000 Londoners braving the record-breaking swelter to watch a free open-air live screening in Trafalgar Square of the Royal Opera House&#8217;s &#8220;La traviata&#8221; with Ren\u00e9e Fleming and Joseph Calleja? A further 10,000 watched on 15 open-air screens across the U.K. Moreover, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}