There are seven accomplished classical musicians in the Kanneh-Mason family, which has made for a noisy yet joyful lockdown environment, as Alan Yentob discoveredAs lockdown eases – at least officially, if not psychologically – many people may be beginning to reflect on the months spent largely confined to their homes. Imagine: This House Is Full of Music (BBC One) is here to bestow an inferiority complex on those of us who had high hopes of learning a language, mastering a musical instrument or making bread that didn’t double up as a doorstop, but have ended up wondering exactly how it was possible to pass the time from March until July without so much as an online certificate in painting-by-numbers.Lockdown inertia does not appear to have been a problem for the Kanneh-Mason family, an extraordinary group of musicians who have spent their lockdown at home in Nottingham. There are seven Kanneh-Mason siblings, aged from 10 to 24, and a family friend from Brazil, Plinio Fernandes, who decided to ride out the pandemic here instead of attempting to make the journey home. All the children are astonishingly accomplished classical musicians, which makes for a very noisy household. Continue reading...
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