The Bath Festival Orchestra revives

Against all probability the scaled-down Bath Festival 2021 will feature for the first time in many years (I’d guess 40 years at least) an ensemble called the Bath Festival Orchestra. This has been refounded with a new remit for the 21st century and performed for the first time at the end of 2020. I somehow doubt that the organisers of the Festival instigated this development, but perhaps it might reverse the trend in recent years for classical music to be sidelined at the Festival. I am all for their going out and looking for new audiences for this repertoire; see some of my complaints that no effort was being made to bring in young concert-goers to Festival events.

Dare I mention it? Perhaps the next stage might be to revive the Bath Festival Chorus too?

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