The Royal Musical Association marks its 150th anniversary with a conference in London this week.
Keynote speaker will be the New Yorker critic Alex Ross. His paper is titled: ‘The End of the Family Line: On the Probable Death and Possible Transfiguration of Music Criticism’.
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