Lifting the box office curse New York is known as a city of culture, but performances of new works attract sparse audiences, just as in Taiwan. Although the "Score of Composers" event may have benefited from American musical circles 'curiosity towards Taiwanese composers, in fact at first tickets for the event did not sell all that well.
紐約的人文薈萃，舉世聞名，但是創作音樂發表會中，聽眾只有小貓兩、三隻的情形，與台灣並無兩樣；而「樂展」雖然佔了美國音樂界對台灣創作可能產生好奇的優勢，事實上，賣座一開始也不是這麼理想的。