“The conversation over the last few weeks has at times been difficult,” says the BBC’s director- general Tim Davie. Understatement of the year? Davie is having a torrid month. First he went to war with Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker over political tweets. Then he inadvertently opened a second front by trying to scrap BBC Singers, the corporation’s chamber choir.
Now, having surrendered to both Lineker and the Singers with his U-turns, Davie is grovelling. In a leaked letter to all past winners of the BBC Young Musicians Award, who were up in arms about the attempt to get rid of BBC Singers, Davie promises “alternative proposals” and says the Beeb “will always be a massive champion and supporter of orchestral and choral music in this country”. That will be music to their ears.
