Let's Hear The Music Play

With the crisis still very much in evidence and lacking signs of improvement in short term, prices of most basic necessities are coming down. Even luxury goods that are normally snobbish enough never to carry price tags, you know, with the understood message of: 'If you need to ask the price first, you can't afford it'. Now, not only there are price tags, but with eye-catching labels announcing considerable discounts. Most leisure services and entertainment too. Seeing that in recent months concerts, especially orchestral classics, attracted less audiences, the auto-critics come to the conclusion that if Beethoven and Mozart had always been wonderful, then they themselves must have done something wrong. In America some organizers have come up with a new idea, they offer Nights of Concerts for 'Singles', to attract those music lovers who are also anxious to find their other halves. Spain too, in Catalunya and, more precisely, in Barcelona, a new plan has been designed and ready to offer to the public now by the Orquesta Simfonica del Valles SV) -Symphony Orchestra of Valles - the opportunity of proximity of another kind. Letting the public experience the music from the interior of the orchestra. They put on sale 4 tickets in each concert, which let the holders to sit amongst the musician on the platform or stage. Plus one ticket that would be drawn amongst the family members and friends of the musicians, also the subscribers of seasonal tickets. The fortunate holder of the winning ticket would be able to greet the director personally, and visit the musicians and speak with them in their dressing-rooms. Music is something intimate, not just to listen but to feel and reflect. It's a form of communication. One or two simple words from a musician is often enough to break the barrier between those up the stage and those in the auditorium. Or it would be like sharing an excellent dinner without being present, or without conversation. However good the meal, it's uncomfortable and indigestible. That's why some good restaurants practice the ritual of bringing out their top chef to greet the diners and exchange a few words with them. The chefs appreciate it too, to have their fine labour recognized and enthusiastically praised. Tags:orchestralmusic

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