We’ve cancelled the rest of the year
mainOn Slipped Disc we have given up publishing each inevitable change of plan that arises from the Covid-19 pandemic.
It has been appearent for several weeks that most orchestras will keep the shutters down for the rest of 2020, and these announcements follow one another with grim and depressing predictability.
In London, both major arts centres will stay shut, keeping the orchestras idle.
In the US, one city after the next has bowed to the inevitable. Today, Chicago wrote off the rest of the year.
Because of the COVID-19 public health crisis, it has become apparent that we will not be able to present fall 2020 programs as originally planned. Our highest priority is the health and safety of our audiences, musicians, visiting artists and staff. After careful deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to not resume our traditional concert programming before January of 2021 in accordance with the State of Illinois and City of Chicago recovery plans and in response to the current safety guidelines from public health officials. We are hopeful that we will be able to proceed as originally planned with programs at that time.
And a few hours later: Los Angeles Philharmonic Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and David C. Bohnett Chair Chief Executive Officer Chad Smith today (announced a far-reaching set of media partnerships and digital initiatives designed to bring the music and programming of the LA Phil to the broadest possible audience. Wide-ranging programs on multiple platforms will make the LA Phil’s work accessible while Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and The Ford are dark due to COVID-19. That period has been extended, as the LA Phil has) canceled its fall 2020 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall through December 31, 2020 in response to the guidance of public health officials.
Yikes, they had a good first half of season lined up too….hope they reschedule them all.
The reality is that they’re not going to return in the middle of winter, either I suspect…….
Don’t you mean the rest of 2020?
I think you mean to the end of 2020, don’t you?
maybe he means 20/21? as in the season.
We have tickets for the opera in Vienna in September with Domingo singing in Boccanegro !
Make up your mind: the rest of 2020, or the rest of 2021?
“It has been appearent [sic] for several weeks that most orchestras will keep the shutters down for the rest of 2021, and these announcements follow one another with grim and depressing predictability.”
Do you mean cancelling for the rest of 2020, not 2021?
“…most orchestras will keep the shutters down for the rest of 2021”
Should that read 2020, or have most placed really cancel through the end of next year?
“…most orchestras will keep the shutters down for the rest of 2021…”
Interesting.
For the rest of 2020, surely? Not 2021?
Nobody knows, not the scientists nor the politicians nor the conductors, when it will be safe for up to 2,000 people to sit inside a concert hall to hear an orchestra play. We wait with bated breath for any news on the resumption anyconcerts.
Are the people who gave this a thumbs down unhappy about Geoff’s statement of fact?
Or do they have some secret knowledge which places them outside the “nobody knows” group?
Come on: share the crystal ball reading with us.
And yet l’Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec is up and running! Livestream tomorrow night:
https://www.facebook.com/orchestresymphoniquedequebec/
Omg that suckz bro
If we are fortunate, one or several of the ongoing vaccine trials will be successful. We will have a good idea of this by end of September to October. Assuming that there is success, it will likely take at least four to six months to mass produce the vaccine, ensure its safety in production (test for endotoxin and potency), transport and distribute it, and implement mass vaccination programs…..assuming only one dose is needed and not two separated in time (by let’s say a month). In the best case scenarios, this could be accomplished by March or April. It is hard to see how any large audience events of any sort will take place before summer of 2021
Of course NL meant to say until the end of THIS year, not the next. By the way, LA Phil made a similar announcement today as well.
I’ve noticed that websites owned by people in the same line as your do not approve of postponements, probably because it calls into question your own financial success. You are putting your own finances above the health of the community and the artistic world.
Bro…buddy…bro why you gotta hate? Jeez bro
I think you made a wise decision, Norman.
Too much bad news is just bad news!
I think Norman means that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has cancelled performances until the end of December. The Lyric Opera of Chicago cancelled in a similar vein a couple of weeks ago.
Absent an EFFECTIVE vaccine, I firmly believe the ’20-’21 concert season will not take place. If we’re lucky, ’21-’22 season starting Fall ’21 may happen.
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In hospital I learnt to look with fresh eyes ontpod-cast recitals, one by viola and bassoon from Lyric Opera orchestra who played their arrangements of two works by Francois Couperin le Grand; Encore: Dvorak’s “Humoresque” and talk of his viola playing in “Terzetto”,. She knew Beethoven’s “Eyeglass Duo for Viola adn Cello. When I mentioned my father was a minstrel show bassso who played fiddle and mandolin, the violist whipped off a cracking country fiddle-faddle caler led “Demon’s Dance” with panache. AFTER QWWJA UB HIAOURkm rhua nyaux hS GREAT UNOACTL U WAS VERY GRATEFUL FOR IT.
The other performer was a medical student and violinist. who played unannounced Fritz Kreisler’s “Liebesleid” and “Opera Ball”, which I named, having heard Kreisler play them on rwcords and AM radio on Bell Telephone Hour.