About 40,000 people gathered to hear the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal through a stadium sound system Wednesday at the Olympic Park esplanade. Every year the miking gets better but this remains a terrible way to hear classical music that wasn’t written for the outdoors. As something else, it’s kind of fun, there’s a festival atmosphere — the feeling that something special is going to happen — and junk food. You can even talk.
However, laughter remains forbidden.