Richard Morrison

My newspaper once had an editor who opined regularly in print about how to improve London’s public transport, yet privately admitted that he had last travelled by bus or tube in the 1970s. Until recently I felt a similar unease when writing about music in schools. My three offspring had long since passed through childhood, more or less unscathed. I still felt I should take part in the music-education debate, but I was one step removed, emotionally and philosophically.

Then something