Comments on: The Weather Outside May Be Frightful http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2007/12/12/the-weather-outside-may-be-frightful/ Just another www.bostonmagazine.com weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:46:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Scot /boston_daily/2007/12/12/the-weather-outside-may-be-frightful/#comment-3661 Scot Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:22:12 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/12/12/the-weather-outside-may-be-frightful/#comment-3661 I would like to express my displeasure with the Boston Pops and their seemingly pure interest in ticket revenue. On an evening where Boston traffic was at a stand still and it could take you two hours to travel two miles within Boston the Symphony refused to postpone the show due to snow. The Thursday night show was marked by a 20-30% audience attendance, as well as missing artists in the orchestra. If last night was not the perfect example of when to postpone due to snow I do not understand why the Pops even has a snowline. The Pops were happy to keep the money from the 80% of people not in attendance. The Pops are clearly more about business than art. I would like to express my displeasure with the Boston Pops and their seemingly pure interest in ticket revenue. On an evening where Boston traffic was at a stand still and it could take you two hours to travel two miles within Boston the Symphony refused to postpone the show due to snow. The Thursday night show was marked by a 20-30% audience attendance, as well as missing artists in the orchestra.

If last night was not the perfect example of when to postpone due to snow I do not understand why the Pops even has a snowline. The Pops were happy to keep the money from the 80% of people not in attendance.

The Pops are clearly more about business than art.

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