Elsewhere in this issue you will read about Oliver Zeffman, a young conductor who puts on concerts in unexpected venues. There’s much to be said for that. Marcel Proust famously suggested that we go through life ‘with most of our faculties lying dormant because they are relying on habit’. That’s a danger, too, for those of us who regularly go to halls and theatres with which we are comfortingly familiar.
We know exactly what will happen and when,
