The world of classical music moves at its own pace, slow, steady and careful. Most major venues have plans in place for the next several years, and opera houses must plan even further ahead, four or more years into the future.
That all looks like off-the-cuff ad-hocism when you compare it to the vision of the Mozart 250 project currently preoccupying Ian Page and his orchestra the Mozartists. Unsurprisingly, Mozart is their focus. Mozart 250 follows his development year by year; it began in 2015, the 250th anniversary of his visit to London (a blue plaque commemorates his stay on Cecil Court, just off Charing Cross Road) when he wrote his first symphony. The series will culminate in 2041, 250 years after his death. That really is long-term planning.
