Re organizersā¦ not the same thing, but before we moved, I used to attend an annual music party at the home of another uni prof who was retired. Her husband plays classical guitar and they have a small grand piano in their front room. They had been doing music parties for years before we moved there, and by the time we were invite,d the music parties had grown to sometimes as many as 20 performers, plus their spouses and/family also attended so it was always a huge party. Covid kind of screwed things up for a few years, and then we attended one more party before we moved away. But the couple who host it are now fairly elderly and as far as I know, they didnāt do a party last year< and I imagine they either will gradually wind down or maybe have already stopped. And in that town, thereās no one to take their place.
We just moved (in June) and sort of have space for music parties, although itās much more cramped here with my piano in the front dining room. The dining room is somewhat open to the rest of the house, so if we had more than a few guests, they could sit in the entry hall and living room bc the sound travels very well. So Iāve been thinking about how to make something like this happen, but so far I donāt know any other amateur musicians in this town. (As I think I said, we just moved here last summer)
Anyway, sorry for the thread jack but the connection to the completion organizers is that, indeed, many of these activities, whether informal parties or big competitions, are the fruits of one personās efforts, which thereās always the risk that they just disappear without a pre-decided person to take them over.