MUSIC IN AMERICA has not come well out of Covid. The Metropolitan Opera, half-empty, shut down for the month of February. Music directors in New York and Seattle, a Dutchman and a Dane, left their jobs. Bigger European names polished their excuses. A dozen orchestras hired vice-presidents of EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion). The Emerson Quartet, America’s finest, called it quits. Music professors were hauled before woke tribunals. Stephen Spielberg’s West Side Story movie lost most of its investment.
At the end of this tunnel, there is a glimmer of light, possibly a game changer.
