From my monthly essay in The Critic:
… there is just enough method in the Trumpian mayhem to suggest the possibility of positive outcomes. We have heard too much moralising from arts leaders. Arts centres have long been bastions of political correctness. Time, maybe, for a correction?
Read on here.
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The London Philharmonic Orchestra has named Henry Shapard as co-principal cellist. Shapard, 26, is presently principal of the Vancouver Symphony and professor of cello at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Also joining the cellos is […]
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