What I learned from Peter Cropper, the maestro of the Midlands | Charlotte Higgins
The Lindsay String Quartet leader introduced me to Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Shostakovich: precious indeed for a girl growing up in the PotteriesOn 29 May Peter Cropper died suddenly, aged 69. He had been the leader of the Lindsay String Quartet, and set up Music in the Round in Sheffield (which was exactly that, music performed not on a stage, but "in the round" in the Crucible theatre, so that the audi…