a review by Julia Meredith
Writing about young musicians is challenging. What they have achieved is already so remarkable – getting up on stage in front of scores of strangers, after years of practice, to do their best for the great composers – you don’t want to say anything which might discourage them. On the other…
by Julia Meredith
Anyone at St James this Saturday night would have been struck by two things. The buzz of anticipation beforehand, and then, when the St James Sinfonia took their seats, how young many of the players were. Of the 44 musicians, 31 were products of the Schools Music Service, the youngest all of 12…