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Will Britain’s orchestras survive the Brexit exodus?

Will Britain’s orchestras survive the Brexit exodus?

30 January 2021

9:00 AM

30 January 2021

9:00 AM

In the first month of Brexit, two British orchestras were publicly beheaded. The London Symphony Orchestra was shocked to discover that its music director, Sir Simon Rattle, had taken a better job in Munich, while the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was forced to accept that its luminous Lithuanian, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, was simply too hot to hold any longer.

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