if the economies of scale argument is to be used, the NCH needs to come clean on why it cost up to £15 to hear John Lill in Dublin last October a day after he played a smaller venue in Limerick at £7 (a student season ticket for a 12 concert season in Limerick cost just £10), or why tickets for the now notorious St Petersburg State Capella SO cost up to £20 in Dublin in 1993 but only up to £15 sterling in Belfast's Ulster Hall. The problem is not new. Tickets for the Royal Philharmonic at the NCH in 1989 cost up to £25, but only £12.50 at a smaller venue in Galway. Whatever way you look at it the odds appear to be stacked against Dublin.
...and also at home
if the economies of scale argument is to be used, the NCH needs to come clean on why it cost up to £15 to hear John Lill in Dublin…
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