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We might think we've got it all, but with no Baroque band we're missing out

AS a native-born Tynesider, resident in Scotland for 60 years, I have often crowed about the remarkable musical resources in my adopted land.

For all the size of our country and its population, our strength, especially in Glasgow, lay in the fact that we had one of everything, unlike London, where five big premier-league orchestras battle for public attention, to say nothing of myriad chamber orchestras and specialist ensembles, choirs and chamber groups, all clamouring for acknowledgement.

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