John Boyden
John Boyden was the Managing Director of the London Symphony Orchestra in the 1970s, Recording Engineer to over 2000 CDs and the re-founder of the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, the original Proms Orchestra.
October 2011
Loose change
Why have the subsidised orchestras failed to commission new music that entertains as well as challenges? Why have they done nothing to nurture a single living composer for whom the public might learn to care? Given less generous funding, the Arts Council’s dependents would have been forced to find at least one composer every decade with audience appeal.
