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Diary

SOS: Save our singers

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

‘Musician’ is how I described myself to the nice Latvian lady interviewing me the other week for an ONS survey connected with the coronavirus, but that didn’t tell the government much. In economic terms, our profession embraces everyone from Sir Paul McCartney to the struggling garage band that may or may not be allowed back into your newly reopened pub.

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John Rutter is an English composer, conductor and record producer.

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