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A little song-cycle about love and life I wrote this year.
Richard Morrison
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Richard Morrison
@RichmoMusic
Chronicler of the arts and heritage scene as chief culture writer and chief music critic of The Times. And for light relief: obsessed choir director
London
Joined June 2017
- Tragic and sadly symbolic news: the superb professional choir of St Margaret's Westminster - the parish church of Parliament itself - has been abolished. It won't be the last. And so, blow by blow, England reverts to being the land without music.
- What is the point of trying to nurture new fans for classical music if, at the same time, we are killing classical music as a profession and an industry? thetimes.co.uk/article/f501ba…
- Explain to me why the Last Night of the Proms is considered inappropriate for BBC TV tonight, but Pointless Celebrities is fine
- Will be absolutely amazed if the £1 million plus saved by axing the BBC Singers and 20pc of the BBC's salaried orchestral musicians is all put back into the classical music budget
- So the axe falls on ENO - stripped of funding and told to move to Manchester if it wants future subsidy. Hardly helpful when Opera North cover that area very well.
- Since the FT has broken the embargo, hear it is. Bailout for the arts is £880m in extra grants for this year, £270m in loans, another £200m-odd for buildings and other things and money for Scots, Welsh and N.Irish arts as well. £1.57 billion in all. Relieved!
- Socially distanced Orlando Gibbons: the last choir practice in St Mary's Hendon for a while, I guess
00:00 - My interview with Yunchan Lim: the piano prodigy who has taken the world by storm thetimes.co.uk/article/8ba2e0…
- Why does the Guardian publish such incoherent piffle about classical music?
- Thank you Oliver Dowden. Four words I didn't think I would type.
- It's annoying that organists aren't regarded as key workers. We work more keys than anyone else.
- The last politician to interfere so publicly in the programming of a classical concert by a national broadcaster was probably Stalin. Previous to that, Goebbels. Wonder in whose footsteps Mr Dowden is proudest of following?
- Think we’ve just heard a first and last performance of a certain anthem