music education – A Piano Teacher Writes…

A-level music education provided by state schools could completely disappear by 2033 as a result of an alarming year-on-year decline, new research suggests. Falling access to the music qualifications, accelerated by cuts in local and central government funding in recent years, has also led to the gap between state and independent music education provision widening,… Continue reading UK’s future music ‘talent pipeline’ at risk from A-level music decline

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Dispelling the myth of difficult

April 9, 2017May 7, 2017 The Cross-Eyed Pianist

There has been a lively and thoughtful response to an article which appeared in The Guardian on 27 March in which the author declared that notated music is "a cryptic, tricky language – rather like Latin – that can only be read by a small number of people". The author, Charlotte Gill, who is neither… Continue reading Dispelling the myth of difficult