How many concerts do you attend a year

About 50 - almost all are classical music. The bigger the ensemble is, the farer away from the stage we sit (yet still in reasonable distance f.e. about row 20 to 30).
Sometimes - the smaller the ensemble the worse the concert's sound can be in comparison to the high end system at home, which always lets me appreciate the quality of the latter.
There are recordings which beat EVERY live sound experience - yet still live is not only a sound-matter as y'all sure do know...
Merry Christmas!

Its getting harder to find music we're willing to pay $100 or more to hear. Seems that the musical directors in So Cal vibrate between Mozart and Mahler, ignoring most of what was written in between, except of course for Beethoven's overexposed warhorses. We'd eagerly buy tickets to hear more Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schuman, Dvorak or Brahms, but the opportunities are becoming all too rare.

i attend 6 or 7 colorado symphony concerts a year, sitting in the seats owned by a friend who's a member of the board (dead center- about twenty rows from the conductor; we have a hall in the round modeled, unfortunately, after berlin's). i also go to an average of 2 rock/blues/groove concerts/mo and usually sit (sit?) in the vip or comp sections, courtesy of my well-connected older son. (hey, i supported him for more than 20 years--this is just a little payback!) -cfb

Marin Alsop in Colorado does a great job!

sugarbrie: indeed, she does. the orchestra has matured wonderfully under her direction. unfortunately, as is the case in a number of cities, the CSO is facing a deficit of >$.5 mil this year, which will be hard to erase in this economy. -cfb