Sad news from the campus at Dartington where musical adventurers are gathering for the give weeks of the Dartington Summer School. Gavin Henderson, the subject of the AI Profile last time, has resigned as director just as he celebrates 25 years in the job. He will stand down after next year’s summer school. He won’t talk about it, but it appears that the reason is that accommodation at the site is going to be effectively cut by more than a third. The 1,200 acre site is the base for the Dartington Hall Trust which runs a series of charitable programmes there, including the summer school, and it was where the progressive Dartington Hall School was founded in the 1920s by Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst and it was the alma mater for the likes of Lucien Freud and Michael Young, founder of the Open University. It closed in 1987, but the college of arts continued and expanded, and Dartington it was a happy place for many years. Times have changed though, and the college cannot afford to stand-alone any longer, so is moving to join University College Falmouth. Accommodation for the summer school has always been problematic, and when the school closed became student accommodation providing 160 beds; now it’s to be converted into retirement homes, and that will mean trimming the summer school dramatically. It means Henderson won’t be able to beat the record of the summer school’s fonder, William Glock, who was its director for 30 years.