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Miércoles, 8 de enero 2025, 18:35
Controversy continues over the performance by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra last Christmas at the Liceu in Barcelona, one of Europe's operatic temples. The Barcelona theatre scheduled three days of film soundtrack concerts (Star Wars, Pearl Harbor, Indiana Jones...), which ended in disarray. The musicians themselves admitted the performance was dismal: they hadn't rehearsed, weren't given the scores in time to prepare, and were missing instruments and musicians. The orchestra was incomplete. They were out of tune, missed notes, and the solos were painful, as some attendees criticised on social media.
One musician, who was dismissed from the company for speaking out, compared the performance on Wednesday to that of an amateur Easter band. Far from the quality standards demanded by the Liceu, a theatre that has hosted some of the greatest in opera. NK Produccions, the promoter responsible for staging the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, has cancelled some concerts scheduled for these days. One was set for yesterday in Valencia, at the Olympia Theatre, and also at the Barcelona Auditorium, scheduled for this Saturday. The Auditorium decided to cancel the concert after the producer could not guarantee minimum quality standards. The Liceu itself has put its quality protocols under review and announced they will be revised. However, the Barcelona theatre distanced itself from the controversy by stating that these concerts were not part of its regular programme and that the company had rented the hall for three days over Christmas.
One musician reported that he had no contract and has not yet been paid for all the concerts. Fernando Rodríguez, a musician dismissed from the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, made his complaint public on Rac1 this Wednesday to let people know that the musicians were not to blame for the New Year's concert being a kind of bait and switch. The disorganisation was so great that before the Epiphany concert, an entire section of cellists was missing because they had missed a flight, yet the company went ahead with the concert. In his view, the first concert was "horrible", "intolerable", a complete "embarrassment" for which the audience, who had paid between 60 and 80 euros per ticket, should have stood up and left the hall. The moment this musician felt most ashamed was when the orchestra played Pearl Harbor by Hans Zimmer, a very epic piece that sounded like an "Easter band", he claimed.
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