THE fight to save the RSC’s music department continues with campaigners arguing that a “commitment to live music” is simply not the same. Thousands of people have signed a petition demanding to “stop the closure of the RSC’s Music Department”. According to a source, this includes closing the music department, with five of its seven employees being laid off. Royal Shakespeare Theatre at nightThe RSC responded: “Our commitment to live music at the RSC, in its many forms and created by a diverse range of practitioners, remains unwavering. The campaign maintains that removing the department does not remove the need for its work; it merely disperses it.