When we get Private Eye<\/i> every fortnight, one of the first pieces I read is the Music and Musicians<\/i> column. It isn’t that easy to find as it wanders around the magazine, usually in the front matter, next to Ad Nauseam<\/i> and the like, but sometimes hanging out with Pseud’s Corner<\/i> round the back. Some issues don’t have Music and Musicians<\/i> at all.<\/p>\n
Often the gossip about the management of concert halls or opera companies isn’t of much interest to me, but once in a while there’s something really near to home. I found out from this column, rather than from a glossy fundraising brochure as I’d have expected, that my Oxford College was setting up a choral foundation. And there was the tale of the person I used to sing for who had a ‘wardrobe malfunction’ in Shanghai. Even the Eye<\/i> couldn’t over-sensationalise that particular incident!<\/p>\n
It’s also a measure of how good my own contacts are. From time to time there’s news from the Cathedral world and almost invariably I have already heard it. I did once send in some local news – about the Bath Festival and the Orchestival – but it wasn’t used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When we get Private Eye every fortnight, one of the first pieces I read is the Music and Musicians column. It isn’t that easy to find as it wanders around the magazine, usually in the front matter, next to Ad … Continue reading