Editorial: Doing the Right Thing

Abstract

Because of TEMPO’s quarterly schedule these editorials tend to avoid anything too topical but, regrettably, it seems likely that when this issue is published the world will still be dealing with the effects – medical, social and economic – of the Covid-19 pandemic. For musicians, as for everyone else, the pandemic has been a catastrophe: so many marvellous performers and composers struck down by the virus; all those cancelled concerts, festivals and premieres; the devastating financial impact of all those lost fees. So how should we recover? How will we be beginning to recover when this issue arrives on people’s screens or through their letter-boxes?