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Covid has only exacerbated the loss of music-making in schools. It must be made available to all ‘If this situation is allowed to persist, music-making will become the preserve of those who can afford it.’ Photograph: Rob Walls/Alamy ‘If this situation is allowed to persist, music-making will become the preserve of those who can afford it.’ Photograph: Rob Walls/Alamy Tue 22 Dec 2020 13.25 EST Last modified on Tue 22 Dec 2020 15.21 EST For anyone connected with a school, the last couple of weeks should have been a harried pile-up of nativity plays, choir performances, talent shows, crumbling mince pies, off-key carols. One school did make a nativity film in the Cumbrian hills. Others “sang” in sign language. But a report by the Incorporated Society of Musicians found, alarmingly, that 53% of primaries and 63% of secondaries that normally hold a festive concert at the end of the first term of the academic year did not do so. ....