No sooner had The Oldie published my jeremiad about the 2023 Edinburgh Festival’s irregular provision of printed programmes than an envelope arrived from an old friend of this column.
It contained a splendid piece entitled ‘Programmes from the Past’, from last autumn’s Musical Opinion Quarterly.
Written by Monica McCabe, widow of the Liverpool-born composer, pianist and writer John McCabe, it recounted her discovery of a large cardboard box crammed with concert programmes mainly of the Hallé and
