Multimedia, $5 Seats, Free-Form Season – PONY Is Upending The Way Orchestras Operate

New York’s newest orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York (PONY), is commissioning new films to accompany its music, using drone cameras to show the audience the musicians in action, keeping ticket prices low ($5 to $40), and working from project to project without a season announced in advance. Can they make it work? (first four paragraphs, then scroll to 23rd paragraph)