Liverpool Phil is rewarded for playing on through Covid
mainThe Royal Liverpool Philharmonic somehow gave 41 concerts between October and December 2020.
Their reward landed today in the form of a £750,000 grant from the Weston Culture Fund.
The money will boost musical resumption when the present lockdown ends.
Good news and wholly merited. But as regards the “somehow”, it’s important to note that the RLPO is the only UK orchestra that owns and manages its own main concert hall. There’s the crucial difference.
In what sense? Insurance, sheer gumption, ability to use a venue (when others might have been refused access)…?
The LSO own St Luke’s in Old Street, and they performed an impressive amount of concerts, also Friday recitals. Their online presence was exemplary, with Coffee Concerts, interactive teaching and the Wednesday Quiz open to all! During these times the LSO looked after its core audience, gaining new fans on it’s digital journey. So, the RLPO isn’t the only British orchestra to have embraced technology by having its own dedicated concert hall!
Before anyone suggests that they are the source of the super-spreading hotspot that is Liverpool currently, they are not! Their online presence and use of technology has been exemplory. Kudos to the RLPO!
How do you know that they didn’t contribute to the hotspot in Liverpool? By definition community spread of a virus starts with 1 person and in the case of a virus with as many asymptomatic individuals as COVID it is more likely that someone in the RLPO did contribute.
Asymptomatic spread, really?
https://twitter.com/erichhartmann/status/1330871485343404034
How about a study of almost 10 million people in WUHAN, China on asymptomatic spread nonsense.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
No, the RLPO didn’t contribute squat to spreading covid19.
Clearly, your degree in Public Health from trump u informed your comment. As for what is going on in Wuhan I wouldn’t put much stock in the results reported by the Chinese government given their refusal to allow the WHO to independently investigate COVID in China.
Cheers,