Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra opens its Digital Concert Hall to the French

We've been waiting for it for fifteen years: the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 's Digital Concert Hall platform, which until now only existed in English or German, is now available in French! We've often praised this Aladdin's cave , the idea of ​​which came to Olaf Maninger, principal cellist, while he was jogging. In this self-managed orchestra where all artistic decisions are made democratically by a committee of elected musicians, Maninger was then in charge of the media. The run was conducive to bitter observations, but also to a solution. Observations: television laughed in his face when he suggested broadcasting concerts in prime time, and the classical record market was in lean times. The future? The Internet!

After all, the Berliner Philharmoniker have always been pioneers of new technologies: as early as 1884, a listening booth in the Philharmonie foyer allowed people to listen to the…