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How a war-themed jazz show bombed at the Fringe
David Pickard, who steps down as director of the BBC Proms next month after nine years, admits that his early attempts as an impresario were not so impressive. Pickard took a war-themed jazz show based on Ella Fitzgerald songs to the Edinburgh Fringe in …