Several years ago, I made a musical trip to the Northeast, hearing concerts and operas in Boston, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia — all on public transit (trains, subways and buses) except for a cab ride on a rainy night from Newark Penn Station to the Prudential Performing Arts Center nearby. I took the train from NYC to Philly to attend a Philadelphia Orchestra that night and, as is often the case, stumbled into two definite "finds."
PECO (the Philadelphia version of LADWP or SoCal Edison) offers discounted tickets about three hours in advance of every concert. $10 buys you the best seat available (no more than two tickets per person). Great program; great way for people to get introduced to the symphony.
The other discovery was walking into what is now Macy's in the Center City Square and seeing and hearing the Wannamaker Organ, the largest instrument in the world — you have to see it and hear it to believe it, and according to the following story, I only heard part of it! Read the New York Times story posted HERE
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