Controller Radio 3 Alan Davey has bashed out an optimistic blog for the BPI website; I rather hope this is a first draft, and he'll be back for a re-write that improves style and sense...I'm a committed Radio 3 listener, but when Simon Mayo— John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) January 22, 2019
starts at the new classical music station Scala I'll be tuning in. How could my employers, the BBC, have let him slip from their grasp?
" I firmly believe that using the classical and other resources of the BBC we can help keep classical music in great shape – with a pipeline of new talent, new repertoire from an expanded canon as we explore new composers and ones from the past who have been forgotten, and reflect the great things the industry as a whole is doing. We can do things for the industry and help amplify what the industry does in a way that no one else can, helped by the licence fee.
"As an industry, there’s a lot of good things going on. I want us here at the BBC to be able to work with the entire industry to continue to offer amazing things to the public – of whatever age – but in particular to get younger audiences to step through a door of discovery into a world where there is something to enhance anyone’s life. Music is a thing of intrinsic beauty and is a great way to understand humanity through the achievements of composing and performance. It’s a gift we can give all audiences and lets work together to do that."
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