Music Journal - October 07

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Editorial - Manifest Disquiet
The sound of revving engines can be heard from the direction of the ‘Music Manifesto’. The long-awaited National Singing Programme is having a final coat of gloss applied before being wheeled out, gleaming, from the hangar, ready for take-off. How much? Ten million big ones! And lots of jobs are being advertised for pilots, mechanics and the like, who will help it fly somewhere. In all there are 37 vacancies, whose salaries add up to £500,000 for initial six-month contracts, with the possibility of extension to three years. Nice work?…  more

Feature - Manifest Inadequacies by Piers Hellawell
‘I teach a class called “Everyone Can Draw”’ an American artist once told me glumly. ‘It should be called “Not Everyone Can Draw Well”’. His complaint was not, of course, that not everyone can draw well – something he already knew, as an artist – and nor was he railing at the temerity of the less able in having a go. His target was the crass egalitarianism that minimizes the chasm between exploration and expertise, the prevailing fiction that only the lack of a workshop or two holds every individual back from effortless creativity.  more

Feature - East is East & West is West? by Joy Norman
‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet …’ The well-known opening line of Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Ballad of East and West appears questionable when one considers the German musicologist Walter Wiora’s theory of global music. more

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