"On occasion, when a program clearly has not met our or our patrons' expectations, we have offered patrons a credit".
Scott Walker performed to his patrons' expectations, successfully creating a zero-sum game in which one group of have-nots was pitted against another group of have-nots.
Library patron's expectations of their library are driven by the experiences that they have outside of it.
The patron's expectation is that the artist will create a work of art that will be of similarly high quality, one that might even earn the patron a footnote in history, without which these well-to-do aristocrats, bureaucrats, clergy or captains of industry would likely be entirely forgotten.
YET while Westchester and Manhattan customers do overlap, restaurateurs say that patrons have slightly different expectations when they dine in the suburbs.
Amplification changed not just the nature of singing in musical theater but also the expectations of patrons, who grew reliant on beefed-up sound systems.
But, although there are traditions of art in which the expectations of patrons demand repetition of a set form in African art, there are also traditions of precolonial origin that demand a high level of inventive originality for example, Asante silk weaving and Kuba raffia embroidery.
Technology has changed the expectations of library patrons; people today expect to be able to find and access information from wherever they are.
Now ballparks have become at least distant cousins to concert halls, as architects and engineers, dealing with much higher expectations from their patrons, call on techniques borrowed from advanced radar and musical acoustics to deal with challenges a classical maestro never dreamed of -- like changing weather and roofs that open and close.
Amidst this constantly evolving digital landscape, America's libraries are trying to keep pace with the latest technological changes while still serving the needs and expectations of more traditional patrons.
Local turnout for the premiere exceeded the cast's expectations, with a thousand patrons showing up.
