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Brandeis University, facing a sharp drop in donations and student enrolment, has sacked the Lydian String Quartet in a cost-cutting measure. All four musicians – Professor Joshua Gordon, cellist, Prof. Julia Glenn and Prof. Clara […]

Letter from Professor Ira Sohn in this weekend’s Financial Times: Regarding Tim Harford’s disquisition on the “Baumol effect” and his observation that “it still takes four musicians between 25 and 30 minutes” to play a […]

The chair of Dartington Trust, Lord David Triesman, has issued a six-monthly update, saying the financial situation is now stable. Of course, there is no summer school and festival. Here’s what he writes: Our earlier […]