Audience
The concert is popular throughout Europe, and more recently around the world. The demand for tickets is so high that people have to preregister one year in advance in order to participate in the drawing of tickets for the following year. Some seats are preregistered by some Austrian families and passed down from generation to generation.
The event is broadcast —from 1989 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2009 and in 2011 under the direction of Brian Large— by the Eurovision network which includes most major networks around Europe (including BBC Two in the United Kingdom). It is also broadcast on PBS in the United States (beginning in 1985), TVE in Spain, NOS in the Netherlands, BNT in Bulgaria, RTS in Serbia, HRT in Croatia, BHT in Bosnia and Herzegovina, RTSH in Albania, RTK in Kosovo, RTCG in Montenegro, TVR in Romania, CCTV in China, NHK in Japan, KBS in South Korea and SBS in Australia. Since 2006, the concert has been broadcast to viewers in several African countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe). In Latin America the concert is broadcast in Chile by La Red, and also in Ecuador and Bolivia. Austria's ORF Ö1 channel also broadcast the concert on the radio.
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Famous quotes containing the word audience:
“When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves. Now when the play’s done, the eyes taken away, I feel just as if a circuit’s been broken. The power is switched off. I feel all gone and empty inside of me—like a balloon that’s been pricked and the air’s let out.”
—Lynn Fontanne (1887–1983)
“Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of “quaint,” and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)
“I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)