What a relief that the BBC is to reconsider its initial resolve to remove the BBC Singers from its payroll – following a vital offer of funding from private organisations. The BBC Singers are the UK's singular full-time professional choir, which has served the public since 1924. The proposed cull put at risk what amounted to 20 full-time posts, counting singers and administrative colleagues. The blow came as part of a raft of wider lay-offs in the BBC's classical music provision, including a 20 per cent reduction in salaried posts across the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concert Orchestra and Philharmonic. ‘We are looking to reset our relationship between salaried and freelance musicians', Simon Webb, the BBC's head of orchestras and choirs commented in the midst of the kerfuffle.
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