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Orchestras are among the musical ensembles to have suffered most during the pandemic. Pauline Harding finds out how some have been adapting their outlooks, products and processes in this new era of germ evasion and online streaming

‘Help us or LSO fails’: Sir Simon Rattle’s plea over Covid and Brexit Ed Vulliamy © Getty Images Sir Simon Rattle says Covid had concealed the impact of the red tape created by leaving the EU. Sir Simon Rattle and his top team at the London Symphony Orchestra have appealed for government support to help them survive the difficulties created by Brexit and Covid. The orchestra depended on international touring – much of it in Europe – for 40% of its revenue before the...

Conductor Simon Rattle’s decision to leave his post as music director of the London Symphony Orchestra has raised questions about Diller Scofidio & Renfro’s £288m plans for a new concert hall for the capital. Proposals for the 2,000-capacity venue, earmarked for the current site of Powell & Moya’s Museum of London, at the south-west corner of the Barbican, were understood to have been the deal-clincher that brought Rattle to the LSO in 2017 – following 18 years as principal conductor w...

LONDON (AP) — Simon Rattle is set to leave his job as musical director at the London...