Here’s a first image of the Tonhalle, due to reopen for concerts in September after the Covid hiatus. They put the closure to good use with a total Swiss cleanup.
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Beautiful hall.
Conventional program.
Brahms 1
Beethoven 3
Sibelius 2
Carmina burana
Are they not good pieces? Is good music conventional? Is adventurous programming by definition better for being adventurous? There is everything FOR programming lesser known music, but that does not mean that programming Brahms, Beethoven and Sibelius is conventional. Lazy, maybe, but only in relation to programming, not to the music.
Reopening with Mahler 3.
O Mensch! Gib Acht!
Does the hall smell of vinegar? If not, it is not Swiss clean.
This is the smell from Switzerland we were used to:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/stil/mode-design/kuenstlerin-kreiert-parfum-mit-dem-duft-frischer-banknoten-fuers-finanzamt-17302503.html
de la Parra??? Ugh, what a shame..
At least we have been spared hearing about her recently.
It was all going so well until that last sentence.