BBC Music Magazine

Richard Morrison

The editor asked me to write about the ‘green shoots of recovery’ for this issue. Poetically, it makes sense. New year, new hope and all that. Realistically, though, it’s a tough task. Vaccines may well beat back this terrible virus in the next few months. But where does that leave the thousands of British musicians who haven’t earned a penny from music for ten months?

What of the venues, music clubs, promoters, publishers, orchestras and opera companies

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