Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.
In a year when everyone cut back on expenses, it should come as no surprise that attendance at the performing arts dwindled. On the dance scene, the number of ticketholders to events at The Egg and Jacob’s Pillow were visibly fewer. But those venues are small compared with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which tries to fill thousands, rather than hundreds, of seats each summer for New York City Ballet’s three-week residency....
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