For listeners
How to read a digital concert programme
A SymphonicBase page is the printed leaflet, on your phone. It is one document for one concert. Here is what each part is doing, and what it will not do.
Open it before you sit down
The ensemble shares a link, or a QR code in the foyer and on the seat. Open it once on the way in. Check the title so you know you have this concert and not an older one that used a similar poster. Traditional Chinese and English are a control on the page, marked 繁 and EN. Switching language keeps you on the same concert. Nothing asks you to sign in.
The order of the evening
The programme list is the running order: titles, and usually the composer. Read it the way you would read the left-hand page of a paper programme. An interval, if the ensemble included it, is there so you can see the shape of the night. It is not a work that needs a note.
The notes under each piece
Programme notes sit with the works. A note can name the composer, the arranger when you are not hearing the original scoring, and a short comment on this performance. The useful ones tell you what this evening is doing: which movement, whose arrangement, or one thing worth listening for. The ensemble wrote them. They are not a biography pulled in from somewhere else, and they are not a review written by SymphonicBase.
Who is playing
The ensemble block says who is on stage and, often, why this programme. Separate biography blocks are for a conductor, a soloist, or a guest the presenter wants named. The roster is the list of players, spelled as the ensemble supplied them. Acknowledgements at the end are the printed thanks: venue, sponsors, donors, volunteers. That list is part of the programme. It is not an advertisement placed by the site.
The email field
Some pages include a subscribe box. If you use it, the address is stored against that programme so the ensemble's next concert can be announced. It does not create a SymphonicBase account. The privacy policy says exactly what is kept.
During the music
Silence the phone before the first entry. The page itself plays nothing; a notification does. Lower the brightness. You already have the whole programme on the one page, so you do not need to search or reload between pieces. Read when you would have read paper: before the start, or between works.
If a work was changed at rehearsal, the ensemble can edit this same page. A fresh open shows the correction. A leaflet that was printed last week cannot do that. The hall's own rules still apply. A page may repeat them — typically no food or drink, a silent phone, and quiet during the performance. Those rules come from the venue and the ensemble.
What the page will not do
It will not sell a ticket, play the concert, or open a chat. For seats and the start time, use the presenter or the venue. If you are the person writing next month's programme, the organiser guide is the one you want.