Richard Morrison

It’s never easy managing an orchestra in Britain, though it’s probably a more secure job than managing a football club. At last month’s annual conference of the Association of British Orchestras, however, the stress was even more evident than usual. There’s something of a ‘perfect storm’ feeling building up – a collision of uncertainties from many different directions.

Brexit, for instance, throws up a ton of unanswered questions or, worse still, questions to which there seems