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04 April 2024
This is what’s wrong with music in
the UK — and here’s how to fix it
A perfect storm has hit British classical musicians. Shake up the quangos, put
music back into schools — and let’s sing up for opera
Antonio Pappano conducting the Coronation Orchestra in Westminster Abbey last year
RICHARD POHLE / THE TIMES
Richard Morrison
Thursday April 04 2024, 12.00am, The Times
For those involved in the UK’s classical music scene, King Charles’s coronation last
May must have seemed heartwarming and surreal. Heartwarming because it displayed to the
world so much that is outstanding in our musical life: the superbly trained children and adults of
the choirs directed by Andrew Nethsingha; the hand-picked orchestra ebulliently conducted by
