In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz writes: >Thanks very much for the detailed responses about UK education. I support >the idea of including composition, particularly if literacy is part of it.
I agree that it's desirable; I don't know to what extent it's required. >[...] > >>Was it >>Missouri where "Head Start" was tried? I would be interested in reports >>of its cost effectiveness. > >Head Start isn't music-specific. Yes, I was aware of that. >It's a nationwide anti-poverty >child-development and sort of 'pre-'education program. It has federal, >regional and local administration and its local programs are run by schools >or nonprofit groups rather than separate government agencies. I am delighted to hear that. The last time I read about it, it was being trialled in one state. >It's for >school readiness rather than education per se. Head Start is actually one >of the most successful government programs ever created (though that >opinion occasionally depends on political viewpoint). Since Head Start goes >back 40 years now, there are endless research reports and studies. Though >the program is still buffeted at the top levels by political winds, it's >been pretty steady and successful at the grassroots. When I first heard of it, it was supposed to have a beneficial effect on teen-age behaviour. I would have thought that would have been easy to measure in its early days. > The official homepage >is http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/ Thanks. I'll have a look later. On the original theme: 1) I am currently listening to a broadcast of a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. They have just finished Tippett's "Praeludium"; they are just about to start Gunther Schuller's "Seven studies on themes of Paul Klee". After the interval, we shall hear the first UK performance of Elliott Carter's "Micomicon", and I shall probably turn the radio off to avoid Strauss' "Don Quixote", the only work on the programme not written in my lifetime (I like some Strauss). 2) The 2004 Prom season included five world premi�res, of which four were BBC commissions, and five UK premi�res of works by living composers. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
