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Orchestra rehearses in a funeral home

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norman lebrecht

July 28, 2017

Apparently, they can’t find another quiet space in Marlborough, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island.

But would you agree to rehearse in a morgue? Is it respectful to the dead, or the music?

Comments

Alexander says:

July 28, 2017 at 1:12 pm

I would type “horror” before the news … there is no good in this at all

James says:

July 28, 2017 at 5:01 pm

Their audience age demographic just went up by five years.

Cubs Fan says:

July 28, 2017 at 5:25 pm

Why not? Who’s going to complain? Besides, I’ve been to some concerts which were so deadly dull that I felt like I was in a morgue, with conductors who showed less life than a corpse.

Robert Holmén says:

July 28, 2017 at 5:28 pm

Note that a funeral home is not a morgue and, given the wide taste in funerals today, the music they rehearse in the funeral home’s chapel is probably no farther-out than what has been performed there for services anyway.

A funeral home not being booked solid 24/7 with funerals… that should be a good thing, right?

Chris says:

July 28, 2017 at 6:22 pm

There was (and maybe still is) a youth orchestra in California that rehearsed in a mortuary. They were called the Pasadena Summer Youth Chamber Orchestra and proudly went by the acronym PSYCHO!