Every night of the All State Choir conference in Louisville, Kentucky, last February, competitors returned to their Hyatt hotel around 11 pm and graced all 18 floors with the National Anthem. Just watch.

Folk singer Juliet Moody got fed up with frowns of disapproval when she fed her baby in public.

So she has lashed back with ‘Ruin Your Day (with tits)’. It’s going viral.

With the regularity of a tax return, the Daily Telegraph has issued its winter assault on the BBC’s classical channel for allegedly dumbing down.

Roger Wright, controller of Radio 3, in a right of  reply, set out the case for original music and ideas that Radio 3 presents, as distinct from the limited repertoire and endless repetitions to be heard on its commercial rival, Classical FM.

Roger’s response was published in the Telegraph with, for some reason, a young woman’s picture on top.

So who’s dumbing down, then?

With the directness of a Finn, Osmo Vänskä has announced that the Minnesota Orchestra president Michael Henson must leave if he is to return as music director.

‘For any healing to begin at the orchestra, Michael Henson must go,’ he announced on Minnesota Classical Radio.

It is unusual, not to say exceptional, for a conductor to demand the head of an organisation that employs him as a condition for future performance. But Osmo is uttering no more than the obvious and the necessary.

Michael Henson has been the executor of a 15-month lockout of the musicians. He has been accused of misleading the public and its legislature and he has never once come out from behind his desk to provide a moral defence of his actions.

Osmo’s right. He must go.

Out of orchestral management altogether.