How much would you pay:
to hear a beautiful piano sound in a live concert?
to own a beautiful painting you could display in your house?
to go to the concert of your favorite band?
for a cd of you favorite band?
to learn how to play an instrument/paint/sculpt/act?
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To answer your question about how much I am willing to pay....
for a live concert, it would depend on who the pianist is. Their fame, reputation, and skills would be the three contributing factors in determining how much I pay. This said, I would pay around $200 to hear a pianist.
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To own a beautiful painting, I would pay around $5,000. Though it really depends on who the artist is, and what type of painting it is, I think it is worth the money to buy a painting that has value, especially if it's for decorating a home. I would also probably own the painting for many years, which makes it worth the money. (I would view it as an investment...sort of xD)
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To go to a concert of my favorite band, I would be willing to pay as much as $300. If I really enjoy the music and the musicians I would be more than willing to spend this much. As for a cd of my favorite band, I would spend around $20. Because I prefer to listen to the mp3's of songs on my iPod over actually owning a CD, I wouldn't be willing to spend as much...
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As for learning how to play an instrument, I would pay however much it costs to learn and perhaps reach an okay level at playing the instrument. I used to pay around $60/hr for violin lessons and I think it was worth the money. Though I'm not good enough to major in the instrument, years of private lessons helped me reach a skill level I'm satisfied with.
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Honestly, I don't think I will spend lots of money to hear a beautiful piano sound in a live concert.
I will buy a beautiful painting to display in my house for $1000. The cost of the painting is really depends on who the painter is, the amount of hours the painters spent as well as materials that the they used. I believe paintings have a great value in sense that they are originals because now days reproductions are very easy to obtain and cost much less than an original piece which makes the original even more valuable.
I will buy my favorite band concert ticket if it is less than 100 dollars and cd for 30 dollars.
Lately, I am very interested learning a guitar. I will just ask my brother to teach me.
Have any of you guys gone to your outside event yet?
Anyone heard of the Groundlings or think they are good?
For me, it all depends how much I connect with the music or art. If I had the money, I would easily pay thousands to support a street painter whose art I connected with, even when a curator may value the art for $10. For concerts, it would depend on the experience I was going for. I used to pay hundreds of dollars on VIP tickets to events, but then I began to realize the general audience experience can be far more entertaining.
As for learning how to play an instrument, paint, sculpt, or act, I think that's priceless. I'm a strong believer that knowledge and imagination are fundamental to improving our lives. I don't believe you can truly put a price on "learning".
Are there instances in which street art might not be considered art? Could the point of street art be to bring into question what art is?
How is the general audience experience more entertaining than the VIP experience?
It sounds like learning is a huge commitment. Perhaps this turns people away from trying new things as they get older. Is it possible to just learn a little bit of something, or is it pointless to not go all the way into something?
Isn't art simply a form of expression? Wouldn't bringing into question what art is be a form of art? I truly believe modern art valuation is meaningless (there is a great example of an art curator valuing "art" created by an animal at tens of thousands of dollars when they thought it was created by a human).
In my experience, people in the general audience are more daring, which can lead to great stories a great time.
Learning a little bit of something is still obtaining knowledge. So no, it would not be pointless to learn only a few simple facts of something.
Many forms of art are considered worthless by the average American. Most people, for instance, would not venture to spend their hard-earned wages on an expensive performing arts event. I used to be one of those people, but this class has changed my perception of art. I now see the effort and dedication that is required to create and perform such art pieces, and I value them more. That said, I would now pay 50 dollars to hear a beautiful piano sound in a live concert, 200 dollars to own a beautiful painting (later in life of course, when I have such funds), 50 dollars to go to the concert of my favorite band (because front-row seats aren't worth their expense), 15 dollars for the CD of my favorite band, and 400 dollars to learn how to play an instrument/paint/act (moderately well).
Nice reflections. My feeling is, though, that you might not get much of a painting for $200. And 400 dollars probably wouldn't even cover your supplies for painting/music, let alone lessons.
Think for a moment about the children I teach, even as young as four years old. Their parents pay around $200/mo. for lessons. Then consider the instruments they will grow out of, strings, books, camps, orchestra fees, etc....
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