The face of orchestra touring after Covid
NewsThese are members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, led by Ivan Fischer, playing for rush-hour traffic in the city.
“I believe that live concerts are very important,” Mr Fischer said. “I think especially now that everyone is fed up with their computers and phones, people will throw them away. They will be back to socialising, getting to know each other, hugging, and talking.”
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Not the older concert audience. They will be worried
About covid 19
They needn’t worry if they’ve been vaccinated.
Maybe it’s just time to accept that the audience for classical music is in decline and have a sensible adjustment. These days we are witnessing more and more the predictably desperate response of freak shows, circus stunts and soap-box ‘art’ moralists who are in some kind of weird denial.
This achieves nothing except the further estrangement of classical music.
“I think especially now that everyone is fed up with their computers and phones, people will throw them away…”
Interesting point I thought, reading it on my phone. Reality check needed.
Can you hear them over the traffic? I went to an outdoor string quartet once. It was 100 yards from the train station. Guess what happened? The train came in and I couldn’t hear anything.
It’s the same in the Philharmonie im Gasteig, without the trains.
If you want to waste your time playing music on the street for no one listening and a noisy background go ahead, but don’t pretend it’s some kind of big meaningful gesture or some kind of “outreach”. No one needs string quartet music or really any music on the street.