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martle
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« on: 14:01:50, 03-10-2007 »
Thought this might be of interest. Piers certainly has some colourful language...

Top Composer Assails
‘Sonic Sand-Pit’ Music Manifesto

Leading composer Piers Hellawell has slammed the government’s
Music Manifesto for turning music into a ‘catch-all social surgery, a huge sonic sand-pit from which our youth
might just stomp to lucrative careers’.

Writing in the Incorporated Society of Musicians’ Music Journal ahead of a major debate on
the current state of music at London’s Battle of Ideas festival,
world-renowned composer Hellawell pours scorn on ‘the unreal pastures of Planet DCMS’ epitomised in
New Labour’s flagship Music Manifesto. The article rips into a
participation-for-all ethos that holds out the ‘siren hope’ that ‘musical, artistic or literary achievement is
but a night-class away’.

Read the whole thing here:
http://www.ism.org/publications/journal/mjoct07/feature1.html
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« Reply #1 on: 14:26:35, 03-10-2007 »
"The ‘Music Manifesto’ needs to proclaim music’s central truth: art changes your life, and the more you know about it, the more powerfully it does so"[/color][/size]

Could someone please commission a mural which includes this phrase,  to be painted on the outside wall of 10 Downing Street so that it's visible to everyone arriving at Cabinet Meetings?
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« Reply #2 on: 14:47:19, 03-10-2007 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 14:26:35, 03-10-2007
"The ‘Music Manifesto’ needs to proclaim music’s central truth: art changes your life, and the more you know about it, the more powerfully it does so"

Could someone please commission a mural which includes this phrase,  to be painted on the outside wall of 10 Downing Street so that it's visible to everyone arriving at Cabinet Meetings?

Sounds like a good way to get music banned...
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« Reply #3 on: 15:43:18, 03-10-2007 »
I just wish he didn't have to make all this 'real musicianship' sound so boring. Undecided

And - sorry - but Piers Hellawell isn't a 'world-renowned composer'.
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