If I see three harps onstage, I will walk out of a concert hall. On Tuesday evening I tried, and I apologize to anyone I damaged in my panic, but the exits were solidly blocked by the crowd filling the Maison symphonique to the rafters for Ravel’s Bolero (1928).
The demand was so high that the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal has added a third performance of the concert.