Immigrants are Wigmore Hall’s new image
NewsThe Wigmore Hall will showcase artworks of migration at the the forefront of its 2022-23 season, announced today on www.slipedisc.com.
Among the major composers featured are Ferruccio Busoni and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
There will also be an African Concert Series.
Under-35s can buy tickets for £5. Chief exec Joh Gilhooly says: ‘In times of great tumult, art and music provide precious moments of reflection, comfort and consolation.’
Anything that can relate classical music to the world, in the eyes of people who don’t understand what the art form is.
Anything that shows that staff running the art form, are virtuous people, in spite of the strong impression of immoral elitism in the eyes of people who don’t understand what the art form is.
Anything that distracts from the deplorable fact that it is not music that is at the heart of management, but money and status.
What nonsense. Wigmore Hall kept us going during lockdown and is an excellent concert hall in the centre of London run by a brilliant team headed by John Gilhooly.
The comment was not about the Wigmore Hall but about music life in general, and the picture does not refute it.
Isn’t it so, that attempts to position classical music concerts as part of current concerns of the world are increaing? I think they are.