# New York Philharmonic Opening Night

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 21, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-philharmonic-opening-night/597125 "2011-09-21T23:47:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-philharmonic-opening-night/597125/1 "2011-09-21T23:47:14Z")

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[Here](http://nyphil.org/attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=2320&seasonNum=11) is the Opening Night program for the New York Philharmonic. I’m listening live on WQXR online. This seems like a somewhat strange opening night program to me. Opera arias on opening night? Not a single symphony on the program? I guess I just prefer an overture, concerto, and symphony for an opening night.

I did enjoy the The School for Scandal Overture as an opener and I’ll listen to the rest of the program. Not sure I would have paid to go to this opening night, however.

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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-philharmonic-opening-night/597125/2 "2011-09-22T01:17:30Z")

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I’m kind of old school when it comes to programming these things: an Overture, a Concerto, a Symphony. One from the Classical era, an early Romantic, a late Romantic. You can vary a bit on this formula, but not too much.

This program, with 2 Barbers, 2 Wagners and an R. Strauss… it’s like a meal of 2 crab dishes, 2 lobster dishes and a dessert of shrimp ice cream.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-philharmonic-opening-night/597125/3 "2011-09-22T04:43:33Z")

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I agree with both of you, and I’ll go a step further: I don’t think I’d go to this concert, even if it weren’t Opening Night . . . well, unless someone gave me a free ticket.