OSM acquires a carillon
The OSM took delivery of the first four of a carillon soon to number ten bells. They will be featured in a symphony performance this week.
In tangential news, attendance at cultural venues in Quebec has never bounced back from the pandemic.
MarcG 09:57 on 2024-09-17 Permalink
Didn’t read the article but a few ideas spring to mind: lots of older cultural consumers are now dead or sick, lots of group activities were stopped and never restarted, increasingly easy to be entertained at home, inflation made everyone poor.
EmilyG 13:15 on 2024-09-17 Permalink
I used to go to more cultural events than I do now.
I guess there are a lot of reasons. I don’t currently live near the city centre. My health isn’t as good as it used to be. And of course, even if many people want to ignore it, Covid is still around.
I feel bad about it, as I’m a musician myself, and I’d like to support the arts more.
Though I recently tried to see if there were any tickets to the OSM’s performance of Gurrelieder, but it was all sold out. So I guess that’s one good thing.
JP 13:37 on 2024-09-17 Permalink
I echo Marc and Emily’s thoughts on this. I used to go to more events before Covid but my social and financial bandwidth just isn’t the same anymore.
My colleagues are going to see Hans Zimmer tonight and those tickets were quite pricey….
CE 19:50 on 2024-09-17 Permalink
I feel like I go to more cultural events than I did before Covid simply because I realized how much I’d miss them if they went away again like they did during the pandemic. The events I go to now are different than before but a big part of that is that I’m older now and my interests have changed (and my stamina has gone down).
Orr 14:17 on 2024-09-18 Permalink
The OSM ticket price is only about 10% of the cost of show (Ticket revenue is 10% of annual revenue of the OSM, so I’ve heard).
With subsidies like that, how can you afford not to go?
It is a very good orchestra.
Kate 09:56 on 2024-09-19 Permalink
I’ve not yet set foot in the Maison symphonique. I’m sure it’s great, it’s just there’s always something I need to spend $50 to $75 on more than I want to sit and listen to an orchestra.