TY - JOUR T1 - ‘You can hear the girls declare ...’: the price of culture JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 469 LP - 469 DO - 10.3399/bjgp14X681457 VL - 64 IS - 626 AU - Graham Watt Y1 - 2014/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/64/626/469.abstract N2 - Aneurin Bevan, architect of the NHS, famously liked to dine in the best restaurants. Accused of being a champagne socialist, or Bollinger Bolshevik, he replied: ‘Anyone can live like a millionaire for 5 minutes.’Nicola Benedetti, the Scottish violinist, plays a Stradivarius violin worth over £6 million. It was lent to her by the millionaire banker Jonathan Moulds, the European President of Bank of America, on the condition that she plays for him and his friends a few times a year.Two or three times a year, for a much smaller price, I also have this experience, sitting in the front row of one of Glasgow’s concert halls. Although not the best place to sit to listen to an orchestra, and correspondingly the seats are not that expensive, it is the best place to observe a soloist perform. To see … ER -