Richard Morrison

Art always survives. That much we can learn from history. I don’t know how you have been filling your lockdown time, but I’ve spent some of mine reading up on what happened to music during the great pestilences and plagues of the past. Oh yes, I know how to cheer myself up!

I was motivated by an irritating remark from a friend. When I confessed I was finding it difficult to write while coopedand when he was in lockdown during the plague of 1605.’