You can expect a high quality level of cultural facilities in a city with a population of around 210,000. In the last fifteen years the city has made big investments in improving and extending the existing facilities. The result: a brand-new music center, a new ‘middenzaal' for the city's theater (‘Stadsschouwburg'), and a new podium for specific kinds of pop music. But of course you can also make your own music or (learn to) act.

"At 75, the Philips Symphony Orchestra is getting younger each year", was the headline of the Eindhovens Dagblad newspaper in November 2005. The orchestra consists of amateur and (semi-) professional musicians aged from 17 to 80.
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