Orchestra jams Birmingham station
OrchestrasOn the busiest weekend of the summer, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra brought its branded concept of joy to New Street Station.
By the look of it, business stalled at Pret.
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Clearly, there’s a viola player needing a regular fiber supplement, and increased water intake.
They did the same thing a few days’ earlier in the Bullring, also to a big crowd. Our family loved it. Advertising £1 tickets to main season concerts for Brummies, too. Bravo, CBSO.
Great offer until you read the fine print that it is only if you can get to Symphony Hall Sunday 1 Sept only, and between 3pm and 6pm only, and that’s it.
Doesn’t it occur to you that this is a way to attract NEW audience? Why would they sell £1 tickets to their regular evening punters? Unless the council had decided to subsidise them of course! Ha ha! Fat chance! The point is that you can’t run an orchestra on £1 tickets and thin air, so maybe be delighted (?) that they’re doing it at all! Just saying.
The CBSO has been playing regular annual performances (usually in early September) in the foyer of New Street Station ever since the rebuilt station opened in 2015. Mirga Grazynte-Tyla conducted one of the first. There’s a picture of it in my history of the orchestra.
Do we detect a slightly sneering tone in the opening paragraph?
The CBSO management obviously have much to answer for, but this is a good news story and deserves to be treated as such.
I’m still convinced that a certain person has it in for Brum – maybe he had a dodgy balti, for which he has never forgiven the entire city.
Indeed. If you’re trying to reach people, it would have been odd not to choose a busy weekend!
Imagine our surprise.
Ooh the first three comments about the CBSO this time are positive. I thought it would be something controversial about black people and fried chicken again!
Horrib;e station glad they are cheering up passengers, they need it.
Why the sneering attitude? It was a wonderful thing to do !!
It’s okay Norman they’ll do something right some day.