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Orchestral manoeuvre to give poorest children hope

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

[A link to the original article.]
Independent.co.uk

By Sarah Cassidy, Education Correspondent
Saturday, 21 June 2008

Children as young as four from England’s toughest estates will perform orchestral concerts under plans inspired by a Venezuelan programme which has transformed the lives of youngsters in that country’s most violent slums.
The El Sistema initiative has used a network of orchestras to […]

Association of Canadian Choral Communities calls for programming moratorium

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Statement to CBC
from the membership of ACCC
(Association of Canadian Choral Communities)
May 16, 2008
The ACCC (Association of Canadian Choral Communities) is unanimous in its opposition to recent unilateral decisions taken to erode classical music and diminish the presence of Canadian classical artists and creators on CBC Radio 2. These cuts do not represent the stated […]

Kalopsia (or, “The Attraction of Closing Time”).

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Linda Ewart forwarded the following entry from Robert Genn’s blog THE PAINTER’S KEYS.
Might CBC management be able to engage in “resipiscence?” (See end of article.)
May 2, 2008    Kalopsia
Christopher Foyle, British owner of Foyle’s Bookshops, has recently published “Foyle’s Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual Words.” In it he defines arcane English words currently dropped or seldom […]