Although the coordinators of the programme have varied a range of positive effects generated by the BIG, they have made it clear that the aim of the project is not to study its impacts; they are already convinced.
Starting time and duration of a given programme vary a lot (see Table 1).
Durations of each type of activation programme vary a lot (mean duration is 5 6 months with a standard deviation of 4 6 months), but one reason for this is that some programmes are interrupted, for instance because the participant finds a job.
Since 1999, the site has been home to a varied and rolling programme of contemporary art, including Mark Wallinger's Ecce Homo, Rachel Whiteread's Monument and Marc Quinn's marble sculpture, Alison Lapper Pregnant.
There was a surprising fluidity to an event in which five rooms played host a vastly varied programme.
The plan is to maintain an ambitiously varied programme of 220 home-produced performances each season only slightly fewer than the Vienna State Opera, and rather more than the capital city's third opera house, the Theater an die Wien.Linz opera will have its work cut out if Mr Pühringer's words are to ring true.
Keith Lockhart leads the BBC Concert Orchestra through a riotously varied programme including the lament of Cinema Paradiso, the stately anthem from Star Wars and the chilling screech of the shower scene from Psycho – guest solo violinist Chloë Hanslip must be looking forward to this one, especially.
Jordi Savall and his group Hespèrion XXI, with three other groups – of singers, instrumentalists and traditional Turkish musicians – made a typically varied, often rumbustious programme of baroque music from 1614 to 1714.
No earth-shattering innovations here, but plenty of fine ensemble playing and an agreeably varied programme.
The festival has been cut from 17 to 11 days, but still features an impressively varied programme.
