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Wigmore Hall post-lockdown concerts with social distancing

Live audiences to return to London’s Wigmore Hall

St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London

BBC Radio 3 announces the return of live Choral Evensong performances

Composer Anna Meredith

Anna Meredith among this year’s female-dominated Mercury Prize shortilst

Jules Buckley presents BBC Radio 3's Classical Fix podcast

Radio 3’s Classical Fix podcast returns with Jules Buckley as guest presenter

Nantes Cathedral

Fire destroys Nantes Cathedral organ

Wigmore Hall

Indoor concerts and performances allowed to take place in England, subject to success of pilot schemes

Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir

Eric Whitacre to release new work for virtual choir

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

£300,000 of new funding available to Scottish arts organisations

BBC Broadcasting House

Radio 3’s In Tune to relaunch live performances from the BBC Radio Theatre

Outdoor concert

Outdoor concert venues and theatres allowed to reopen in England following lockdown

Composer John Cage

New documentary about John Cage’s relationship with silence coming to BBC Radio 3

Cadogan Hall, London

Cadogan Hall becomes one of the first UK music venues to reopen following lockdown

Royal Opera House, London

UK government pledges £1.57 billion bailout for arts industry

Italian composer Ennio Morricone poses on the red carpet of the European premiere of film 'The Hateful Eight' in London on December 10, 2015. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL (Photo by LEON NEAL / AFP) (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)

BBC Proms 2020 Launch Image

BBC Proms announce 2020 season of live and archive concerts