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Hello I'm Jane Garvey.

And I'm Fe Glover.

And did you know that if you're a Times subscriber,

you can now access exclusive shows, including shows and interviews

from the Times Radio Archive. And bonus episodes of Off-air. and Apple. The pandemic has been a destroyer of lives, livelihoods and lifestyles.

But as well as destroying, it could help remake.

Take for example the world of classical music.

How this is affected conductors is really interesting because by and large all those great names have been entirely absent for the last seven months and nobody has really missed them.

In recent times, the barons of the classical music world,

the great conductors, the omniscient maestrows,

have been challenged, their expense, their personal style,

their occasional abuses have come under scrutiny.

And now the coronavirus makes its own deadly music.

Is the writing on the wall for the old-fashioned maestro conductor

and will classical music go down as well.

You're listening to stories about times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm David Erronovich.

Today, overpaid, oversex and over the hill, has the Maestro had his day. The I came up through a slightly unusual route because my dad was a conductor of a brass band.

That's the voice of Richard Morrison, the chief culture critic and music critic at the times.

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