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At the concert hall’s restaurant, busy on a Saturday afternoon with grandmothers plying
their grandchildren with cake before a matinee and couples mugging up on the
programme with wine, it’s easy to feel reassured; classical music looks much like it
always did. But that is an illusion, and one that could well shatter soon.
On Wednesday, Gilhooly will deliver a speech at the Royal Philharmonic Society
awards — the biggest night in UK classical music — addressing the threat to our world-
class orchestras and elite musicians posed by dwindling funding, an erratic Arts Council
and the government’s refusal to acknowledge the many blows the pandemic dealt.
