That made life difficult for concert promoters who couldn't predict attendance for events and, as a result, meant that many artists wouldn't tour there.
Finding it increasingly difficult to make concert bookings or to sell records, the group broke up in 1952 but reunited three years later when a Christmas concert at Carnegie Hall sparked new interest in their music and message.
While some Russian musicians deemed critical of the government find it difficult to secure concert venues and get on the radio, officials almost never restrict access to foreign music.
Madison Square Garden is home to three sports teams, giving it a crowded calendar that makes it difficult to schedule concerts.
It is difficult to prove a concert action.
The cancellation comes at a difficult time for the concert business.
Does it help to have difficult pieces at a concert explained to you before you hear them?
As Eminem proved with his strange, subpar "Saturday Night Live" performance, making contemporary music work in concert is difficult even for the most talented artists.
October 11 2010 Jeffrey Milarsky's excellent Juilliard ensemble gives a fuller portrait of this week's star composer at the Philhamonic, performing his fearsomely difficult "Joy" in a concert that begins with Stravinsky's "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" and Xenakis's "Okho".
Ticket sales for last Sunday's concert, featuring difficult modern works, numbered 6,785, compared with 10,136 the previous Sunday, when the weather -- a factor in lawn seating -- was better.
