The organisers of concerts at the Dome should take a leaf or two from impresario Raymond Gubbay's book of success.
Take some popular classics, dress the orchestra in powdered wigs, frock coats and stockings and charge a reasonable price - say, from £6 to £23.50.
That way, you get a pretty full house, certainly in the stalls and a hefty chunk in the circle, you get great music and you send the audience home happy.
What you don't get is 600 empty seats for the up-to-£45 tickets charged for the Kirov Orchestra or, worse, the 1,200 empty seats at the Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment concert even when Sir Charles Mackerras was conducting.
Just look at the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's full house the other Saturday. William Walton's Symphony No 1 is not to everyone's taste yet the BPO do it week after week.
Thus Raymond Gubbay, gives the public what they want. On Saturday, it was Baroque music.
Two Handel pieces, including the Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba, two from Mozart, including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Chuck in an aria or two from soprano Elizabeth Cragg and violinist David Jurowitz playing a 1748 Guadagnini instrument and you have the recipe for a real crowd-pleaser.
Okay, the Mozart Festival Orchestra might not be from the top drawer of orchestras but they were good value for a good night's entertainment.
Surely, it is better to have a house making money than to see so many empty seats before world-class orchestras?
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