![]() Let’s hope for the best of luck as we proceed! Planned events/artists will likely be subject to short-notice changes, and there is still the issue of entering Canada for international performers. Given the uncertainty of the current situation, we will not attempt to present our full calendar of events until we see how things move forward. In the above slideshow, we link to the concert seasons for some of Vancouver’s principal music presenters fuller information is available under ‘affiliates’ on the righthand side of this page. One can only give these organizations the greatest support in what, in many ways, remains a fight for their survival. The VSO has started to add additional concerts to the same effect. Other presenters are admirably attempting to increase attendance by utilizing larger venues than originally planned. The number of live concert offerings is understandably reduced from pre-Covid levels, and some organizations are presenting a mix of live and digital concerts. With current social distancing requirements, only 50% capacity is permitted at events, and one can only hope this number moves up rather than down in the coming months. Nonetheless, given how fluid the Covid situation is, this courageous effort by the city’s music organizations must still proceed on almost a week-by-week basis. THE 2021-2022 CONCERT SEASON COURAGEOUSLY MOVES FORWARDįor all music lovers who have spent the last 1.5 years in relative hibernation, the possibility of returning to live concerts again in Vancouver is a fully inspiring prospect for audiences and performers alike. The official opening concert (Sept 23-25) features passionate pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, who always plays on the extremes, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. In fact, the earliest fall concert features the legendary Itzhak Perlman, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, performing movie theme transcriptions. Here we see an escalation in the tendency to let ‘pop classic’ concerts – with celebrities – be the big revenue generators, effectively subsidizing the ‘masterworks’ classical concerts. In what follows, we appraise the concerts for the remainder of 2022.Ī central fulcrum of any city’s musical activity is its symphony orchestra, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is no exception. ![]() At the same time, many presenters are clearly trying to piece together previous artist commitments that did not come to fruition the last two seasons. What emerges in the coming concert season sees very little decline in quality from pre-pandemic years, though the marketing focus and repertoire chosen for some organizations has evolved slightly from the past. Then, there were the additional costs (for some presenters) of repositioning to digital presentation and livestreaming, an innovation which carries on this year to a degree, and is likely here to stay. ![]() It is fortunate indeed that the city’s classical music organizations (which number about 25 all told) avoided major casualty over this period, even though they required a superhuman effort, and plenty of assistance, to keep going with a limited revenue stream. After two topsy-turvy years of cancellations, re-scheduling, and shutdowns, the 2022-2023 concert season appears to have a semblance of normality.
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