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2004 - A Provocative Perspective on Music Eduction Today

from Part I - Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2013

By
John Stephens
Edited by
Peter Dickinson
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Fourth Bernarr Rainbow Lecture, given at Trinity

College of Music, Greenwich, 19 October 2004

John Stephens, OBE, has had a long career in music education as teacher, adviser, inspector, lecturer and examiner. He taught in Portsmouth and Harlow, Essex, and was County Music Adviser for Shropshire. He was appointed to HM Inspectorate in 1968 with an assignment in counties across southern England, and Assessor to the Schools Council Project Music in the Secondary Curriculum, directed by Professor John Paynter. Then, in 1976, he became Staff Inspector of Music in the Inner London Education Authority, where he pioneered the bringing together of teachers and professional musicians and widened music provision. Finally he was Head of Education at Trinity College of Music and was appointed OBE in 1998.

Half a century ago this year I first Stood in front of a class of secondary-school pupils as their music master, without a hint of imagining that I might one day have the honour to be invited to give a lecture in the name of a distinguished and much-respected music educator of the time, Bernarr Rainbow. I humbly offer this perspective on music education today to honour him and the countless practitioners and thinkers who have, over the years, influenced my own career and who continue to shape the future course of music education.

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Music Education in Crisis
The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments
 , pp. 57 - 78
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2013

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