Friday Night is Music Night – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Light Fantastic Festival – which hijacked the Southbank Centre and much of the BBC radio schedules this weekend – showcased a genre that is usually beyond the purview of music critics. "Light music" is deemed too lightweight for the classical world, too rigid for jazz and no longer popular enough to be labelled pop music. It thus falls into this curious no man's land, the anonymous soundtrack to dimly remembered seaside holidays and variety shows. Its only hom...

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