In the darkened backroom of the BBC’s northern orchestra, brows are furrowed over the identity of a new supporter. The orchestra has been paying an agency to boost social media engagement. Its Facebook followers have […]
It’s been a while: well, over 40 years, since I heard Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, in an amdram production just outside of Manchester in which I was playing French horn. Has absence made the […]