The manufacture of euphemisms for cancellation is turning into a Covid boom industry.

Here are some of the latest:

The Board of Trustees of the Riga Jurmala Music Festival today announced the decision to suspend the Riga Jurmala Music Festival until 2021.

Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) announced today the cancellation of its summer festival in favor of an immersive filmed experience that will be streamed on August 21, 22, and 23

The Savonlinna ⁦Festival⁩ has announced that it has successfully rescheduled the whole of this summer’s program for 2021.

With sadness, I announce that the (Three Choirs Festival) Association’s board of Directors have met and agreed that this summer’s festival should be postponed till 2021.

The Queen Elisabeth Competition … are pleased to announce that we are able to postpone this piano session until May 2021.

Inaugural Helsinki Biennial moved to summer 2021

What’s the point of all this spin? If it’s off, it’s off.

The orchestra confirmed last night that the Bowl stays shut for the summer and its orchestra has been put on furlough.

The LA Phil estimates that revenues lost from these canceled concerts, as well as a portion of the orchestra’s spring season, will result in a roughly $80M budget shortfall. To mitigate these losses, the LA Phil must now take additional steps to address the financial impact caused by the pandemic and is furloughing approximately 25% of its full-time non-union workforce, as well as the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra through September 30, 2020, and is laying off seasonal Hollywood Bowl employees. 

Christian Thielemann said at the weekend that the Bayreuth boss was making a good recovery after withdrawing from the festival.

Not so, says the festival today.  

Katharina Wagner is still ‘seriously ill ‘and will not be able to resume work in the forseeable future.