Southland Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Survey

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Please help us by completing this survey – the data will be used in securing grants and qualifying for various forms of support, as well as helping us know how to better serve you. (Name, phone, street address are optional. We will not sell or share your information, but we would like to know your name and contact info so that we can keep you up to date with the latest SSO news. *We do need your zip code for our demographics study.) Most of the questions are configured with check-boxes. When answering, please select any/all answers that apply.

Name

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Address

Residence Zip Code
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Choose the one that most closely describes you:

I am a Season Ticket Holder

I am an SSO instrumental musician or chorus member

I attend 2 or more SSO performances per year

I attend 1 SSO performance per year

I have attended an SSO performance in the past

It’s my first time attending an SSO performance

Other:

How did you hear about the concert? (Please check any/all that apply)

Facebook

Other Social Media

SSO/SSO Chorus Website

Poster or Flyer

Newspaper

Word of Mouth

Friend or Faimly Member

Orchestra Member invitation

Season Ticket Holder

Tickets were a gift

School (Teacher/Professor suggested or required)

Online ads

Other:

Do you have a “favorite” past SSO Concert? If so, what was it?

If you attended the 2024 Season Finale, What was your favorite piece in the concert?

"La Leyenda del Quetzal y la Serpiente" (The Legend of the Quetzal Bird and the Snake) by José Elizondo

Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 “Classical Symphony”

Khachaturian’s Cello Concerto in E minor with Ruslan Biryukov, cello soloist

What was your favorite concert this season?

October 8 Season Opener (with Chorus (Rutter Gloria), Rodrigo Harp Concerto, and Britten “Soirees Musicales”)

Messiah

Amahl and the Night Visitors

February 23 at Gardiner Spring (Brahms Double with Sords and Walz; Beethoven 8; Overture to Prometheus)

Season Finale with Ruslan (Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Elizondo)

Other:

What was your favorite piece this season?

What particular piece of music or particular composer would you like to hear us perform?

About Program Notes/Program Books – Do you prefer

“Real” (paper, hard copy) program books/notes

Digital

I want both

I have no preference

Do you have a favorite composer? (If so, who is it?)

What kind of music do you want to hear? (select all that apply)

Baroque (Bach/Vivaldi/Handel)

Classical (Mozart/Haydn/Beethoven)

Romantic (Dvorak, Brahms, Mendelssohn,Tchaikovsky)

20th Century (Bartok, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Copland)

Contemporary (Higdon, Elizondo)

Pops

Film (Movie) music (Williams, Zimmer)

Opera

Broadway

Chamber Music/Small Ensembles

Concerts with Chorus

More music by living composers/women/bipoc/commissioned new works.

If you chose living composers/women, are you able to support acquisition of the music - many of these are only available as high price rentals ($500 + per piece)

Yes, I would help support availability of music by Living composers, Women, Bipoc composers, Commissioned new works, etc…

Concerts with Pops/Rock Tribute groups (Rock/Folk/Top 40/Abba groups, Beatles, Sinatra, etc)

Other:

What factors affect your decision to attend? (please check all that apply)

Visiting Guest Artist featured

A specific instrument featured

Parking

Seating

Program (traditional vs. contemporary)

Local guest artist featured

Familiarity of repertoire

Price of tickets

Schedule

I just love to come to the concerts of the SSO

Other:

On a scale of 1 – 5, How do you like hearing our concerts at Bethel? Circle your answer (1 is worst, 5 is best)

Do not like hearing concerts at Bethel

REALLY Like hearing concerts at Bethel

Clear selection

This year we also presented a couple of programs in Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium. Did you attend one or both of those?

I attended one

I attended both

I did not attend either concert at GWS

Clear selection

If yes, which venue do you prefer - GWS or Bethel?

Gardiner W Spring

Bethel

No Preference

Clear selection

If you have a venue preference, why? (parking, fancier, better acoustics, prefer more intimate concert experience (Bethel), prefer more formal experience(GWS) - or something else.

Would you like to be part of our team (as a volunteer/usher, publicity street team, stage crew, other?) Select all that apply.

Yes I want to be on the SSO team!

I would like to be an usher

I just want to be a volunteer - open to helping any way I can

set-up/clean-up

stage crew

publicity helper

I am already part of the team

I am a photographer and would like to assist by taking photos

I am a videographer and would like to help by taking video

I could make high quality audio recordings of the concerts

Other:

What can we do to improve your concert experience?

Any other comments

Optional Demographic information (This info will be really helpful to us, and will not be shared in any way that individually identifies you)

Age Group - Please select

Under 18

18-25

25-34

35-45

46-55

56-64

65-74

75 and over

Prefer not to say

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Ethnicity - Please select

Hispanic or Latino

Not Hispanic or Latino

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian

Black or African American

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

White

Blended/Mixed Race

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Other:

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Gender

Non-Binary

Prefer not to say

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