Notes of Pride

A Pride weekend playlist of composers, singers, and musicians who changed the game.

It’s Pride weekend in London, and last night I was at the Barbican for Classical Pride - a concert by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Zeffman, with soloists Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano and force of nature) and countertenor Cameron Shahbazi. The hall was packed. The audience was diverse, excited, full of life. People cheered between mo…