Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts

NYTimes.com: THE Juilliard School’s inviting 275-seat Paul Hall was nearly packed recently for an early-evening concert, a free 60-minute Liederabend program on which four gifted student singers, each paired with a comparably gifted pianist, sang songs by Schumann. Classical music has struggled for a long time to fight the perception — an unfair perception — that it is elitist and inaccessible. But here was a program that didn’t even require tickets. People just showed up.