🧵 3/6 – Schools with stronger curriculums focused on teaching pupils to get better at music rather than just ‘doing’ music. Senior leaders understood the important role extra-curricular music plays in complementing the curriculum.
Read the report here: https://t.co/jG1INeZ4VE
Tragic decision again desecrates our cultural life. @BBCSingers killed off in centenary yr?! Central to our music making life & irreplaceable.
Irrevocably Irresponsible actions by so called leaders in @BBC . Future audiences & musicians future badly betrayed. #bbcsingers#bbc
The Music Department is an alternate universe where pupils are often unrecognisable from who they are outside of it. The shy become confident. The agitated become calm. The lonely become included. The quiet become heard. And the lost become found. Music reveals the real child.
🚨 New guidance has been issued by the Department for Education (@educationgovuk). 🚨
It has clarified that music, dance and drama can continue being taught in schools as long as safety precautions are implemented.
Read more: https://t.co/ZahTmJDByS
#MusicTeachers#UKMusic
‘I don’t like opera’
‘Which operas have you seen?’
‘I haven’t seen any’
‘So how do you know you don’t like opera?’
‘…(silence)’
Introduce someone to opera this year.
#TuesdayThoughts
We're excited to announce the launch of OperaUNITY, our new series of family workshops. They will take place at Opera Holland Park this summer: https://t.co/X885nPzsmA #OHPInspire
"It's not about opera, it's about kids seeing themselves in a different way." @NoisyMV#HipHop2Opera is available to watch now on YouTube and BBC iPlayer. https://t.co/R6SKuBYtzD
"For opera, we are the amplification. So the body amplifies the voice, with this kind of projection, and also breath pressure and support." @reneesmusings https://t.co/Bsc4MjhP8g
"In my view, she’s not a fragile flower but a very strong and determined woman."
Ahead of #ONButterfly@The_Lowry tonight, here's @duprels on Cio-Cio-San:
https://t.co/ZJ7fqLjQUm