Summary
For the 11 June gala first night, the RFH's four resident orchestras - the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - will gather on stage to perform work by nine composers, including Ravel's Bolero. Speaking bravely about the future requires asking whether a building of this type, and the events it holds, can ever be truly accessible to all while inequality strips so many of entitlement and public buildings are forced to hive off their highlights in order to generate revenue.
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Back to the Future
Folk memories of great events often seem much rosier to people who didn't live through them. Films and pictures of the 1951 Festival of Britain, held on the south bank of the Thames in the last months of the Labour government's strangled second term, look beautiful and noble to someone who has experienced only the Millennium Dome. At the time, any public figure sceptical of its mastermind, Herbert Morrison, was keen to denounce it as a to...
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