Alan Gilbert: Orchestras in the 21st Century - a new paradigm

Read an edited version of Alan Gilbert’s 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society LectureMusic helps to define what it means to be human, and orchestras will continue to do what we have always done: play powerful, intriguing, uplifting, thought-provoking music. But the challenges facing people in today’s world call for something new in the way that music and musicians can touch people’s lives on all levels: emotionally and spiritually, of course, but also socially, psychologically. What orchestras