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Music is a balm right now. But there’s little comfort for musicians

Music is a balm right now. But there’s little comfort for musicians

John Harris writes: [P]ublic performances of any kind have all been cancelled, and the hiatus could conceivably last well into next year. Festival season seems to be a write-off. And in the fine details of research about how the virus spreads, there are actually suggestions that the participatory aspects of music have been in part responsible for Covid-19’s transmission: witness a senior German virologist’s claim that over the last weeks and months, “wherever there was singing and dancing, the virus…

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