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It\u2019s wonderful to read such a robust defence of classical music (Classical music brings us joy and meaning. In this time of doom and gloom, we need to talk about that, 26\u00a0January). As one of \u201cthe infantry\u201d playing in and helping to run an amateur orchestra in my city, I wholeheartedly agree with James Murphy\u2019s view that striving with others to give the best\u00a0possible performance\u00a0embeds\u00a0our humanity and connection to each other.<\/p>\n
It also teaches us something invaluable and increasingly hard to find. And that is that we can only make this kind of music with <\/em>others and not by ourselves alone. We need each other to play a symphony. We have to work together, listen to each other, follow each other, stay connected. We put the \u201cme\u201d to one side and become an \u201cus\u201d. It\u2019s one of the best collaborative and collective experiences we have available.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the only way to make it work and for the magic to happen. The connection between classical music and global politics isn\u2019t immediately obvious \u2013 but the invaluable experience gained through playing this music together provides a much-needed antidote to the prevailing zeitgeist of \u201cme\u00a0first\u201d and divisiveness that is dragging our world to its knees. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s wonderful to read such a robust defence of classical music (Classical music brings us joy and meaning. In this time of doom and gloom, we need to talk about that, 26\u00a0January). As one of \u201cthe infantry\u201d playing in and helping to run an amateur orchestra in my city, I wholeheartedly agree with James Murphy\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1281,5603,337,686,2658,22612],"class_list":{"0":"post-43133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-classical","9":"tag-lessons","10":"tag-life","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-play","13":"tag-symphony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Chris Scarlett<\/strong>
Sheffield<\/em><\/p>\n