Must the concert platform also be a catwalk?

How does it feel to work in a classical music industry that prizes beauty almost as much as brilliance? Violinists Nicola Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova should know…The face of classical music once belonged to an old man, usually an octogenarian conductor: craggy Klemperer, Karajan with his bristling white quiff. Now, as orchestras and recording companies adjust to new demographic realities, the face of the art more often belongs to a young woman whose body is part of the pitch. Sopranos adver...

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