Classical Concert Audience

You watch the crowd filter through the doors and into the mezzanine of the theater. What will the orchestra select to play this evening? Classical? Baroque? Perhaps something from the Romantic period? You glance at the program, but it doesn't matter-- half of the concert is listening to the even hum of conversation resound off the hall walls as the velvet seats fill in around you. Voices reverberate off the cavernous ceiling. Conversation surrounds you as in the upper balconies and lower floor area people find their seats. The anticipation is tangible; you wait for the lights to dim and the curtain to rise, when the people quiet suddenly and the music begins....