On a visit to Canada last month I found a copy in our hotel room of a publication called The WholeNote. It’s a monthly magazine about classical music (also covering jazz, musical theatre and world music) in the Toronto area. The issue I read had an yellow insert in the middle called ‘The Canary Pages’ with details of many local choirs, which appears annually. The rest of the magazine consisted articles by local authors, mostly previewing what was coming up in the area, and book and recording reviews. The level is often quite erudite; an article about Handel’s Semele traces the myth back to Thracian origins with discussion of the Indo-European roots of the names of the characters involved. (Though this relied a bit too much on The Golden Bough for my liking).
It’s a quite substantial seventy pages or so (not including the ‘Canary Pages’), with several pages of concert listings and some advertising but not a huge amount. So I wonder, is there anything like this in Britain? A Time Out focussing on serious music? Is there something in London that I just don’t know about?