Produced by Hannah Robins: “It is beautiful to hear and quite thrilling to watch but it’s also quite sad to think this is he way it has to be and will be for a long while yet for live music, theatre dance or any kind of art that is meant to be witness by an audience gathered together.
Can social distancing work for performers, audience members, and for those that have to balance the books? How will the performing arts survive in the coming months? And when they do manage to reopen, maybe not even until next year, how will the new normal affect what we see and hear on the stages around Britain?”
Presenter John Wilson goes to the Wigmore Hall where they’re beginning live concerts on Radio 3 next week. Violinist Alina Ibragimova performs in the hall – the first instrument played there in ten weeks – and speaks to John alongside Director of the Wigmore Hall John Gilhooly about what it means to be creating live performance again amidst such huge financial uncertainty.
Other interviews:
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Alan Davey tells us what to expect from this years’ Proms.
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Christina Haak, deputy director of the Berlin State Museums
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Robert Hastie, Director of Sheffield Theatres
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And Dominique Frazer, who runs the Boileroom indie music venue in Guildford
Source: BBC Radio 4, Front Row Podcast
