Welcome BBC Music magazine July 2021 Issue

For those with a keen interest in the history of live music, the Proms Performance Archive on the BBC website is an endlessly fascinating resource. One could spend hours in its company, browsing the details of every concert going right back to when Henry Wood first brandished his baton in August 1895.
But the names and numbers can only tell you part of the story, of course. In years to come, a click on ‘Saturday, 12 September 2020’ will inform you that Dalia Stasevska conducted a Last Night whose programme included works by Vaughan Williams and Sibelius, plus the traditional festivities. It won’t, though, tell you that she did so with no audience present.
When Stasevska returns for the First Night of this year’s BBC Proms, the scene should – we hope – look very different. As we all tentatively start to look forward to a music-filled summer, the Finn reflects (on p26) on both the challenges of last year and the joys that lie ahead at the end of this month.
Finally, a personal note. After almost 17 years as this magazine’s editor, I’ve decided to give someone else a go. Back in 2004, when I started at BBC Music Magazine, podcasts were in their infancy, iPads were the stuff of science fiction and I was still in my twenties! My time on the BBC Music magazine has been huge fun, and I hope something of my enthusiasm has rubbed off on you along the way.

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