There’s an opportunity here

There's an opportunity here for an art to learn to love itself once more. Since 1997 at least, classical music in the UK has participated, submissive and obedient, in its own gaslighting. Tell it that it’s prejudiced, that its masterpieces are “problematic”, and that it must jettison time-honoured customs, and its practitioners will swallow these libels without demur. And yet no musical genre is richer, more genuinely meritocratic and more energetic about seeking and welcoming new listeners. Cla...