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Watching March roll out real winter
I'll start this thread off having been heartened by a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning. They acknowledge you're not going to see performances of massively orchestrated scores like a Mahler symphony from then again any time soon. But on the bright side, that leaves room for presentation of more chamber-like works that sometimes get short shrift from major urban orchestras, as well as innovative offerings from contemporary composers who deserve the extra attention.
The piece has rounded up quotes from other major orchestras on how they too struggle to deal with the need to keep their patrons and audiences happy while protecting their artists and, in the financial sense, "keeping the doors open." That may be very hard to manage, and some orchestras have cancelled their entire season while trying to sketch out plans to present online alternatives. As for concerns of the musicians about their livelihood, well... it's not a whole different from having been well paid staff in a pricey restaurant that now has a receptionist taking orders for delivery and a skeleton crew in the kitchen.
But a musician is like an athlete in the sense of needing to keep up skill levels and physical strength, so I'm hoping people will share links to blogs they hear about individual performers and chamber groups have been setting up for virtual performances during the pandemic.
So I hope that members here will share news and links to online offerings from musicians, a category of entertainment that might escape attention amid all the mailbox clutter of our pals meanwhile emailing movie and TV watching tips as we cope without access to live concerts.
Of course I don't mean to limit this thread to news of just "classical" music, or even just to music. Have at it. Help me out here as you learn about sites that we can access online for music and other arts. For instance, The Whitney Museum now has a wonderful installation related to Mexican muralists and has put a lot of it online with videos as well as images and text, in both English and Spanish.
The Philadelphia Orchestra goes shorter, smaller and virtual for the first part of the 2020-21 season
“You’re not going to see the Philadelphia Orchestra do Mahler's 5th with full strings and winds and percussion anytime soon," said the orchestra's chief.
www.inquirer.com
The piece has rounded up quotes from other major orchestras on how they too struggle to deal with the need to keep their patrons and audiences happy while protecting their artists and, in the financial sense, "keeping the doors open." That may be very hard to manage, and some orchestras have cancelled their entire season while trying to sketch out plans to present online alternatives. As for concerns of the musicians about their livelihood, well... it's not a whole different from having been well paid staff in a pricey restaurant that now has a receptionist taking orders for delivery and a skeleton crew in the kitchen.
But a musician is like an athlete in the sense of needing to keep up skill levels and physical strength, so I'm hoping people will share links to blogs they hear about individual performers and chamber groups have been setting up for virtual performances during the pandemic.
So I hope that members here will share news and links to online offerings from musicians, a category of entertainment that might escape attention amid all the mailbox clutter of our pals meanwhile emailing movie and TV watching tips as we cope without access to live concerts.
Of course I don't mean to limit this thread to news of just "classical" music, or even just to music. Have at it. Help me out here as you learn about sites that we can access online for music and other arts. For instance, The Whitney Museum now has a wonderful installation related to Mexican muralists and has put a lot of it online with videos as well as images and text, in both English and Spanish.