Richard Morrison
@RichmoMusic
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Chronicler of the arts and heritage scene as chief culture writer and chief music critic of The Times. And for light relief: obsessed choir director
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A little song-cycle about love and life I wrote this year.
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Tragic and sadly symbolic news: the superb professional choir of St Margaret's Westminster - the parish church of Parliament itself - has been abolished. It won't be the last. And so, blow by blow, England reverts to being the land without music.
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What is the point of trying to nurture new fans for classical music if, at the same time, we are killing classical music as a profession and an industry?
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Explain to me why the Last Night of the Proms is considered inappropriate for BBC TV tonight, but Pointless Celebrities is fine
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Will be absolutely amazed if the £1 million plus saved by axing the BBC Singers and 20pc of the BBC's salaried orchestral musicians is all put back into the classical music budget
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So the axe falls on ENO - stripped of funding and told to move to Manchester if it wants future subsidy. Hardly helpful when Opera North cover that area very well.
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Since the FT has broken the embargo, hear it is. Bailout for the arts is £880m in extra grants for this year, £270m in loans, another £200m-odd for buildings and other things and money for Scots, Welsh and arts as well. £1.57 billion in all. Relieved!
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Socially distanced Orlando Gibbons: the last choir practice in St Mary's Hendon for a while, I guess
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Why does the Guardian publish such incoherent piffle about classical music?
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My interview with Yunchan Lim: the piano prodigy who has taken the world by storm
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Thank you Oliver Dowden. Four words I didn't think I would type.
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It's annoying that organists aren't regarded as key workers. We work more keys than anyone else.
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The last politician to interfere so publicly in the programming of a classical concert by a national broadcaster was probably Stalin. Previous to that, Goebbels. Wonder in whose footsteps Mr Dowden is proudest of following?
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Think we’ve just heard a first and last performance of a certain anthem
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My 44th consecutive year playing the organ for Midnight Mass in Hendon, and still that old tingle of trepidation: in what condition will the choir emerge from the pub?
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I hate to use the word lightly, but the preserved inside of Notre Dame this morning is a bloody miracle
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Did I just hear the organiser of the Southbank Centre’s Christmas festival describe orchestral music as “a bit of a dying genre” on the BBC TV London news? How helpful is that to the Southbank’s resident orchestras?
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Aurora’s Rite of Spring review — one of the most breathtaking Proms in history
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Exhilarating Bach and strenuous Bruckner! Monteverdi Choir certainly set the bar high, and good to see JEG giving that old velvet Mao Jacket an outing again
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Preparing to star in my radical new production of Britten's final opera, Death in Hendon, at the Beach at Brent Cross Shopping Centre.
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Sublime songs of farewell: my thoughts on the music and meaning of what happened in Westminster Abbey
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Korean teenage superstar dazzles in London debut
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Harry Christophers on the campaign to keep the Anglican choral tradition alive
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Two top British orchestras make history by forging radical partnerships with schools
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The dream is over: disgruntled Simon Rattle leaves London for Munich
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Only a radical about-turn will save English National Opera from being forced into insignificance
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Time to spell out the consequences for musical life of abolishing the licence fee
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Quite pleased by the new Mildmay Line on the London Overground. Who knew that Sadiq Khan cared so much about the co-founder of Glyndebourne?
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Who will be brave enough to follow Wigmore Hall and turn off the Arts Council’s tap? My column today
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My take on the fisticuffs in France: John Eliot Gardiner is an enthralling conductor — who now looks like a dinosaur
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Fishing boat going out to sea at Aldeburgh this morning. So evocative. Someone should write an opera about it
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My view: ENO's move to Manchester will mean the end of its orchestra and chorus, but it's what the Arts Council wanted all along
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The government's new "cultural renewal taskforce" is a pathetic response to a massive crisis
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Britain's top musicians busking on a street near you (if you're lucky)
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What sort of humourless, vindictive, insecure tosser fires a great opera director like John Copley for making a harmless joke in rehearsal?
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Good to see our Culture Secretary developing a taste for fantasy fiction
Dom Cummings followed the guidelines and looked after his family. End of story.
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Moved to tears by the singing in Dartmoor Prison
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Interviewed two eminent conductors today. One was staying at the Savoy, the other at the Marriott in Kilburn. Think the latter ought to get a new agent.
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So many people leaving during the second interval of the Birtwistle that I might be allowed to bring in a plus-one for Act 3
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Always thought the RNLI exemplified selfless courage. This has increased my admiration not lessened it.
We're proud of the lifesaving work our volunteers do in the Channel – we make no apology for it. Those we rescue are vulnerable people in danger & distress. Each of them is someone’s father, mother, son or daughter - every life is precious. This is why we launch:
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So "everyone" wants to sing Rule Britannia at the Last Night of the Proms? Lowest viewing figures for years. Less than 4 per cent of the UK population.
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Strike up the band! The LSO's music director on why his orchestra is determined to put on concerts, despite being abandoned by the government
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Never too young or too old to enjoy the longest continuous vaulted medieval ceiling in the world. Which you all recognise as ...?
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There’s a point in a British coronation service when only something very loud, brassy and German will do
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With my youngest at
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Hundreds of millions spent on new buildings while the arts die; plus amateurs sold out in DCMS deal
- my column
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It can be done - a great orchestral concert with everyone on the same platform
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HAIRCUT!!!! second in the queue at 7.55am. Five months' growth removed. Now feeling very cold
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I cannot believe the choice of stories on Newsnight tonight. Pollution in China, eating disorders during lockdown and "what would you put in a museum of Covid?" Tory high command must be very pleased with its man at the top of the BBC
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Terrific article by James MacMillan. Required reading north and south of the border!
Scottish Nationalists Are Hijacking Music to Push an Independence Agenda
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A morsel of good news in this awful week
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I think if my old maths teacher had carried a gun he would have shot me
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Millions of Londoners desperately finishing their Christmas shopping - lovely to have Kew Gardens to ourselves
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@ElizAthertonSop
Figures are right. How much of that comes eventually to performers as opposed to institutions remains to be seen.
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That magical moment when you realise your child has worked out how to open the washing machine and hide spoons inside
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Memo to the distinguished North American newspapers calling me “baritone Richard Morrison” this morning: you really don’t want to hear me sing. I thought you guys employed fact-checkers.
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In the worst of times, the best of news from one of Britain's great conservatoires
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Sir Andrew Davis — a critic’s tribute
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Alison Balsom: ‘We have a music crisis in schools. Everyone needs to speak out’
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Bold venture in streaming choral music deserves to succeed
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Interesting musico-psychological question: why do British basses and baritones get knighted but not tenors?
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Unforgettable singing, playing and staging at Glyndebourne
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Just watched Andre Rieu conducting the Hallelujah Chorus on telly, and in the spirit of Christmas I have to say: I've heard worse.
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Another London orchestra comes on stream in compelling style
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That was what made me write the article
@RichmoMusic
Trouble is, none of this is even on the radar as part of the political discussion. BBC Radio unique, but hardly noticed by the political decision makers. And live classical music making and development not recognised as important at all. Don't know what you've got till it's gone
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A fortnight to save culture - what has to be done
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After all the mudslinging, sweet harmony and beautiful visuals as the Proms return to the Albert Hall
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Thrilling Czech music Prom tonight. Love it when the Albert Hall organ renders an entire 90-piece orchestra redundant
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So as well as getting the theatres reopened, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is also the minister responsible for stopping Russian interference in UK elections? No wonder he looks completely bamboozled by his job.
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“Lift that wrist up a bit, Daddy, you’re not bloody Horowitz”
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Why the outrage about an arts centre temporarily becoming a law court, if it means survival and saves hundreds of jobs?
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Never too young, or too old, to try to love Francis Bacon
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@cathybeck1961
That's a very debatable view, and in any case is irrelevant to this decision which was all about saving money
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Thousands of theatre people suddenly jobless again because of the government's absurd treatment of the West End
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Emotionally overwhelmed by the return of the Philharmonia
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Can’t decide what I found more inspiring in Lucerne - the view from the top of Pilatus or Kirill Petrenko’s blistering Beethoven with the Berlin Phil.
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Staring at imminent disaster: Government arts policies castigated in the Lords
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@JohnGlenUK
Your “team at DCMS” should have stopped the cities from spending millions on futile bids in the first place. There was never any chance of a UK city being allowed to win after Brexit
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Fascinating to see how the boss of Amazon UK argues for more taxpayers' money now he's head of the Natural History Museum
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The ‘plan’ for ENO’s new home is pure fantasy
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@annalapwood
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Years ago I had to persuade the stage door people at Symphony Hall Birmingham to let the little lad with me into the building. He was Gustavo Dudamel, there to conduct that night's concert
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Another political encore at the Proms. The Germans and Barenboim play Land of Hope and Glory! Brilliantly too. Book them for the Last Night!
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Ravel reworked for our lockdown times
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@SophusBevanus
@MarkValencia
Coming out the other end, after 18 months of chemo on and off, I actually feel enriched by the experience of meeting so many caring medics. Good luck, thinking of you Sophie.
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Brent bravely flies the multicultural flag in hostile times
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Deeply moving concert at Buckingham Palace with Alzheimer’s sufferers singing wonderfully
@alzheimerssoc
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The concert, which brought together 4 organisations of which The Princess is Patron, was held in The Ballroom of Buckingham Palace to recognise the powerful role that music can have in enriching lives, especially those suffering with dementia.
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My Essential Eight ideas for improving the arts (and life) in 2022
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"As grim as I've ever known it" - I ask arts leaders about whether serious culture can survive
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