If classical music does indeed have an image problem, asks Philip Clark, then what new image should it be forced to adopt?
Let me open with a confession. This is my first visit to Wales for forty-two years and until earlier this year I didn’t actually realise I’d been to Wales before. When my mother died in January amongst her things I found a book of Dylan Thomas poems that my parents had bought during a holiday to Wales in 1972. Inside she inscribed my age – and so I can tell you that I was six months old the last time I was in Wales.
But I do have a connection-once-removed to Wales that feels pertinent to the subject under discussion tonight – about the classical concert experience, its relevance or otherwise, in the 21st century. I was a friend of the music writer... Keep reading on Gramophone
Let me open with a confession. This is my first visit to Wales for forty-two years and until earlier this year I didn’t actually realise I’d been to Wales before. When my mother died in January amongst her things I found a book of Dylan Thomas poems that my parents had bought during a holiday to Wales in 1972. Inside she inscribed my age – and so I can tell you that I was six months old the last time I was in Wales.
But I do have a connection-once-removed to Wales that feels pertinent to the subject under discussion tonight – about the classical concert experience, its relevance or otherwise, in the 21st century. I was a friend of the music writer... Keep reading on Gramophone