19h30 The finals are about to start. Our musicians gather backstage, while the audience is queueing at the main doors. Every seat is taken, hundreds of disappointed concertgoers had to return home empty handed...
20:00 The camera's are ready, the jury is seated at the first balcony, the spotlights are blinding the orchestra. Gergely Madaras is supposed to start the finals right away, but the audience is only slowly making its way into the concert hall. We are already running late before the concert has even started! 21:00 Stamatia Karampini takes over. While our staff is shovelling the piano back on stage, some of our more couragous musicians rush out backstage to grab some water and ask for the windows to be opened. The temperature is rising constantly, and the airco is unable to cope... but we can't open any windows as the theater is quite old and not very well isolated. One single motorcicle in the busy streets of Besançon could ruin the most beautiful pianissimo of both Strauss & Saint-Saëns...
22:00 Applause for Stamatia & a well deserved intermission for our musicians! Our general manager Gunther Broucke rushes backstage for his interview with arte, while everybody else rushes towards the bar. Excited yet slightly tired faces everywhere, still one candidate to go, everybody is whispering, speculating, betting on who will make it in the end...22:15 Yuki Kakiuchi is taking over the baton. The piano & is back on stage. For the third & last time tonight, pianiste Marie-Joséphe Jude plays Saint-Saëns, followed by Jarell & Strauss. Our musicians are giving everything.
To be continued!
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