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Strings Attached

The North Sea Radio Orchestra at the Roundhouse last year
In the past couple of days, I’ve booked tickets for the following:

two different shows by the North Sea Radio Orchestra, one supporting the excellent Ted Barnes at the Purcell Room on the 27th SEPTEMBER [EDIT - apologies for putting wrong date previously] (with a free open [...]

No album goes unreviewed!

Most CDs sent out to music journalists, I suspect, don’t get listened to.  For me, given that several arrive every day, it can get almost impossible to keep track; I naturally home in on names I recognise, and others fall to the bottom of a “slush pile”.  Commissioning decisions then tend to get made on [...]

Opera Class Hero

Nelson Fraser of The Spectator says opera subsidies are “a middle-class rip off“. Oliver Kamm says they are “a public good” as he makes the “liberal case for subsidies” in The Times.
Who is right?