Picture the scene. It’s a late-night gig and musicians are scattered about the auditorium, where the young audience is lolling among them on beanbags, smiling and laughing as the band’s frontman pauses the music to tell a story. The atmosphere is decidedly chilled.
It might sound like an offshoot of Glastonbury, some event staged at a boutique rock festival, but just such a spectacle is coming next month to the magnificent Usher Hall, the high temple of the Edinburgh International Festival.
This is classical music, not as we have known it, but reimagined for a new generation and presented by Nicola Benedetti, one of a handful of daring innovations she has made in her first summer as the festival’s director.
The band playing among the
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