THE SHOW MUST (VIRTUALLY) GO ON

Filling in my diary at the start of the year, I noted down Yuja Wang at the Barbican in March, the launch of the BBC Proms in April, the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv in May. You will have had red-letter dates of your own. Diaries everywhere, of course, now lie useless and unopened during our months of lockdown as we protect ourselves and everyone else from the spread of Covid-19. What to do, for the amateur pianist and piano lover? Practise, of course.

What about the professionals, and the rest of the music industry? Th e concert halls whose chairs are empty? Th e festivals who have cancelled for the