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So our budding Claptons, Enos and Bonhams spent their week in instrumental classes and lessons in harmony and form, and came together every Friday in ensembles where they'd perform note-perfect renditions of "Aja" by Steely Dan, "Sylvia" by Focus or Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". Our students played wonderfully, so why did the feeling grow in the pit of my stomach, along with my colleagues, that our conservatoire model just wasn't working?
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Beethoven Who?
Every child should learn about classical music
Do you want your children empowered to engage with the most enduring works of music? Are you bothered if that life-giving resource is being progressively discarded without consultation? When I was a student, there was a story, probably apocryphal, that Dudley Moore raised eyebrows when he went to Oxford as an organ student not knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote. Now it is unusual to find a new undergraduate who does know. It is, none...See the full content of this document
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