Abstract
31. December 2019, Chinese government sends out a warning regarding the spread of a strong lung inflammatory disease or a pneumonia-like disease. Days later it will be known as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, also known as the COVID-19 virus. World Health Organization (WHO) declares this disease as world health threat. With the virus rapid spread all across the world and In March 2020, concerts, gigs, and festivals were all cancelled almost over-night. The orchestra pit stands in a dead silence. This sudden halt in organization, means also a sudden halt to people’s jobs and income. Since the beginning of 2020, the C-19 pandemic has created turbulence in the world of the classical music industry. To get close up view of the situation, six directors and general managers from six different Scandinavian orchestras are asked to elaborate on the situation created by the COVID-19 virus in the orchestra management. The leaders are asked to elaborate and compare the situation in regards to before the pandemic, during the pandemic, and what some of the predictions are of what a post-COVID-19 world will look like for the traditional orchestra industry. The results show a significant impact on how the COVID-19 virus affected the decision- making of the policymakers. Creating measures and social restrictions that create a domino effect now recognized as a ‘critical juncture’. In the case of the six orchestra leaders, they have to operate through conditions created by the ‘critical juncture’, which interrupted the legacy of daily operations, strategic planning, networking, etc. They now must deal with the consequences from a day-to-day basis.