Music’s charms

YOU need some strong whisky to blot out the failings of the English cricket team Down Under.

But what works equally well is a visit to York University to listen to the soothing music of York Symphony Orchestra. Their winter concert included music by Brahms, Stanford and Vaughan-Williams, with some lively conducting from Alasdair Jamieson.

The London Symphony No 2 by Vaughan-Williams included the Westminster Chimes, London before dawn, and a second movement which Vaughan-Williams described as “Bloomsbury Square“ on a November afternoon. Makes you wonder what music he would have used to describe our English cricket failures.

Allan Denney