Still, the chance to hear Mr. Andsnes play the Lutoslawski should entice audiences to the final performance tomorrow night.
If the idea is to entice audiences to see the rest of the season, I'd wager that the onslaught of excerpts is a failing strategy.
To address that, but also as part of efforts to entice audiences, the Philharmonic had a special two-for-one offer on tickets.
The success of this seemingly modest venture shows that it does not take much to freshen up the protocols of classical music and entice audiences.
With power returning to much of Lower Manhattan, some Off Broadway theaters and playhouses in the area are offering discounted tickets to entice audiences to return as well.
Without citing herself, Ms. Blanchett pointed to productions like Botho Strauss's existentialist play "Gross und Klein" ("Big and Small"), in which she played the adrift protagonist, Lotte Kotta, as "a programming risk" that could entice audiences "if you put one familiar component into it".
But there seems to be a widespread assumption among the managers of American companies that the best way to entice audiences to new works is to recruit composers who write musically accessible operas: harmonically bland and cloyingly lyrical, however contemporary the subject matter.
In October, the Film Distributors Association FDADA) released a showreel of 47 of the biggest Christmas film releases, in a last-minute attempt to entice audiences back into cinemas at the end of the year and offset the 8% decline in box office takings on the year before.
Cable channels, free of the strict standards for appropriate content broadcast channels are held to, could entice audiences with any kind of guts and gore ― or sex, though it seems we prefer that as a side dish to brutality.
