Author - Tony Woodcock

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21st Century Musicians: New Pathways
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Teaching, Learning, Experience (III)
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3:30 a.m.
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Ghosts
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The Coolest Band in the World
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Why Music Is Important: The Orchestra Crisis
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Why Music Is Important: Education
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Why Music Is Important: El Sistema Makes the Case to the World
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Why Music is Important: The Economic Answer
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Why Music Is Important: The Experience

21st Century Musicians: New Pathways

We are all prone to plateau in our endeavors, because we don’t have such constant critical prodding and feedback. So our tennis, golf, snooker, running, weightlifting attain a certain level, but then get stuck.

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Teaching, Learning, Experience (III)

Concert programmers, teaching artists , armies of program annotators, and museums with their rental headsets believe that audiences today lack experience and confidence in approaching an art work.

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3:30 a.m.

My top priority — of course — is to protect the young people who study here, our faculty and staff, and all the many thousands of concert visitors we have every year. But this mandate necessitates negotiating a way through a challenging Scylla and Charybdis of choices.

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Ghosts

Why do we love terrifying ourselves? I am sure we’ve all experienced those spine-tingling moments as a child telling the most frightening stories late at night when parents are asleep.

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The Coolest Band in the World

The Berliners’ model should lead us all to imagine more flexible and responsible organizations that have music as their mission, and the community as their foundation.

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Why Music Is Important: The Orchestra Crisis

Musicians and orchestras are extraordinary treasures, and to deny them a place in our society is to deprive everyone of one of the most positive and magical experiences in life.

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Why Music Is Important: Education

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars on invasions and bombings, we had used the same resources to fund educational systems, build infrastructure, and provide medical care in the Middle East and beyond.

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Why Music Is Important: El Sistema Makes the Case to the World

In 2008, I made my first visit to Venezuela to see El Sistema. By then, I had heard several colleagues’ reports about the miracle that was happening in this developing country. But nothing prepared me for the powerful impact of music and music-making I experienced.

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Why Music is Important: The Economic Answer

The London School of Economics is no slouch when it comes to understanding the real world in all its fiscal glory (or calamity). Several of its researchers have been working with three of the top music schools in London – the Royal Academy, the Royal College, and the Guildhall in producing an economic impact report on the three schools.

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Why Music Is Important: The Experience

Do you ever buy CDs or download music used in movies? Great scores like Out of Africa, Harry Potter, Chariots of Fire, the Batman series?

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