The Berlin Philharmonic Just Had Empty Seats. That's a Signal Worth Reading.

An evening with the Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Jakub Hrůša, and violinist Julia Fischer performing Martinů, Suk, and Kaprálová should have been a full house. It wasn't. The empty seats at one of the world's most prestigious orchestras suggest something about how classical music audiences are shifting, or how the repertoire being programmed isn't connecting the way it used to. This is the kind of quiet signal that predicts bigger changes.