"It’s an opportunity to have what we do in front of a massive audience, it’s outreach to people we don’t always have access to," Tony Pierce, Colorado Symphony's vice president of artistic administration, says. "I definitely hope it brings people to us, and I think it will."
While some people think the effort has the potential to inspire similar partnerships, others are skeptical that it will attract baseball fans to the concert hall.
"People already are exposed to a lot of classical music on a regular basis, so if it’s something they would’ve been attracted to in the first place, they probably would have gone and sought it out," Aaron Gervais, a composer based in San Francisco, says.
Colorado Public Radio arts reporter Corey Jones explores the collaboration between the Colorado Symphony and the Colorado Rockies on CPR's arts show. Listen tomorrow, Friday, at 10:30 a.m. and again at 7:30 p.m.