classical music English-a-t-it played its last measures ? In a letter to the Guardian , two of the conductors, the most influential of the United Kingdom, Simon Rattle and Mark Elder, respectively, musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Hallé Orchestra, describe the situation of classical music as hopeless. “It is highly likely that the landscape is completely devastated at the exit of the crisis ; the orchestras could stay there and those who survive will be faced with insurmountable obstacles to remain viable”, alarmed-they.
in The United Kingdom, the musicians of the vast majority of the major orchestras are not employees and do not have a system of protection comparable to that of the intermittents in France. They are paid stamp : paid if they play, and lack of treatment in the absence of concerts. A particularly untenable, while the Uk is still hit by the epidemic, and that the cultural activity has been reduced to nil. Many orchestras are completely free.
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Approximately 70% of concert halls and theatres, explain and be short of money. Therefore, in the inability to hire musicians for concerts. Horace Trubridge, the Union’s general secretary of the musicians, said this week to the deputies that the country could “very easily lose half of its concert halls if there was no ongoing support for them”.
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In their letter, Simon Rattle and Mark Elder bear witness that the musicians of the United Kingdom feel abandoned “in nature” and are asking the uk government to specify how and when they could start to play.
The English government in difficulty
A working group has been established to draw up a roadmap. Only problem, no representative of the music was not part of the college created. This new controversy has fed the fears of the representatives.
This week, the English minister of culture Oliver Dowden stated that he was involved in “discussions” complex with the Treasury and intimated that an agreement was almost concluded. “I’m not going to stand idly by and see our position as a world leader in the field of arts and culture destroyed,” he said.
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waiting for new answers, Simon Rattle and Mark Elder point out in their letter, the different paths explored in the rest of Europe to revive the orchestras such as the gradual opening of the meeting and the development of new techniques of communication in the face of physical separation. “In the Uk, we need to save time by applying what has already been proven, rather than start from the beginning, with people who are not the offspring of the performing arts and who make the decisions.”
Some institutions have decided to take things in hand such as Radio 3 or the Wigmore Hall, which began a series of recitals without an audience. The organisers of the BBC Proms, themselves, are hoping for two weeks of concerts at the end of the summer, probably without the public.
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