No more classical music in Pleyel Hall in Paris

Salle Pleyel
Vaudeville show, Chanson, Jazz, One-man-show, dance, musical comedy: these entertainment activities will replace the classical concerts in future in the Pleyel Hall in Paris. Because classical music is according to one of the men who decided this, all over the world dependent of sponsors or public subsidies.
The Pleyel Hall is one of the famous concert halls in Paris with almost 2000 seats that was built in 1927 by Pleyel et Cie, the French piano manufacturing firm that has been founded by Ignace Pleyel in 1807.
It is possible to fill the Pleyel Hall with audience through one-man-shows but no more with classical concerts. Unbelievable!
It seems to me that classical musiciens as well as music promotors have run out of inspiration. If the pure classical concert does not fill any more concert halls than one has to combine the concerts with entertainment elements instead of giving it up completely.
My impression is that the old boys network in classical music and the promotor giants who dominate the big concert halls need urgently a big bucket of cold water and new ideas. Country:France

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