irst, congratulations to all those who have worked on this magazine over the 30 years that we celebrate with this issue. When I told my university tutor that I was aiming to become a classical music journalist, he said: ‘Forget it. Those jobs will disappear in five years.’ That was in 1976. Somehow, we stagger on. People still want to read about music, thank goodness, as well as perform and listen to it. They still want to be
