Category: Opinion
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Opinion – I mispronounced Ligeti. Joe Tidy didn’t know PHP.
Admitting ignorance builds trust, but only in moderation. What the Joe Tidy pile-on says about expertise, credibility and classical music.
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Planning the BBC Proms amid the BBC’s £500m Cuts
Future Proms? Fewer international orchestras but big chorus stuff protected (for now) apparently
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Opinion – The BBC needs to save £500m. Classical music is not exempt.
Even if the BBC needs to save £500m, it won’t announce culling Radio 3 or the Proms, especially before the centenary of the Corporation’s ownership of it before next year. Will they?
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Opinion – The numbers don’t build the audience. Trust does.
A recent wide ranging online article about classical music’s digital content ‘turn’ stops short of the detail that actually matters — how these platforms work, what metrics are really for, and why Southbank Centre’s TikTok figures don’t mean what they’re claimed to mean.
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RPS Awards 2026: Classical is a sector that knows what it wants
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards were a stylish affair full of wit, polish and verve. Classical music as self-assured and defiant. There’s still work to be done, and a timely message for some to keep checking their spam folder.
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On Chalamet and sympathy exhausted
If ballet and opera really are in trouble like Chalamet’s ill-thought out throwaway comment might suggest, then it’s going to take more than an Instagram post to fix it.
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Humphrey Burton (1931 – 2025)
Reduce classical music’s exposure and you don’t merely rearrange a schedule — you relegate an art form. No television executive ever defends that kind of decision.
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Class Ceiling: Data, discomfort and barriers
A day-long conference staged by Revere Arts on access in classical music revealed systemic blind spots, uncomfortable truths and the barriers still shaping who gets to belong.
