"Schafer Education Report" – music program lost to education cutbacks

CANADIAN VOICES

R. Murray Schafer Composer Residency Report (PDF)

Schafer Education Report (PDF) the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. CHURCHILL PUBLIC SCHOOL … The school was losing its music program to education cutbacks …

Schafer in the Community
Three weeks of intensive work in the schools and the community accompanied Soundstreams Canada’s Canadian Voices concerts.
Leading composer [...]

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The Importance of Music Education in the Public School System

A PLACE FOR MUSIC: THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM (ELEMENTARY GRADES 1 – 6)
By Emily-Jane Orford
Published in fermata (University of Victoria) 2001

… music in education, the competing agenda of cutbacks in provincial education … Vocal Music Textbooks authorized by the Ontario Ministry of Education 1846-1988 …

If in our rapidly advancing [...]

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Pupils sing the blues over music education cutbacks

Pupils sing the blues over music education cutbacks
JEANNE PENGELLY  /  Examiner Education Writer
Local News – Tuesday, May 08, 2007 @ 00:00
The bands played on … outside Kenner Collegiate yesterday as about 100 young musicians gathered to celebrate one of their favourite pastimes.
They piped up to mark the third annual Music Monday – a day [...]

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music education fundraising campaign – Ontario Education

Fundraiser aims to bring music to schools
Updated Thu. Sep. 9 2004 7:19 AM ET
Canadian Press
TORONTO — After learning that Sean Jones’s middle school didn’t have an adequate music program, his father compelled the young boy to join a marching band at a local community centre.
Years after playing his trumpet in that band, Sean Jones [...]

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