Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Bernarr Rainbow: A Biographical Note
- Part I Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
- 1999 Music and the Imagination
- 2000 Music and Eduction: Towards a Non-Philistine Society
- 2001 Music in the School Curriculm: Why Bother?
- 2004 A Provocative Perspective on Music Eduction Today
- 2010 Two-Score Years and Then? Reflections and Progressions from a Life in Participatory Music and Arts
- Part II The 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture
- Part III A 2013 Perspective
- Part IV Three Views on Music Education
- Part V Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music
- Appendices
- Index
2000 - Music and Eduction: Towards a Non-Philistine Society
from Part I - Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Bernarr Rainbow: A Biographical Note
- Part I Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
- 1999 Music and the Imagination
- 2000 Music and Eduction: Towards a Non-Philistine Society
- 2001 Music in the School Curriculm: Why Bother?
- 2004 A Provocative Perspective on Music Eduction Today
- 2010 Two-Score Years and Then? Reflections and Progressions from a Life in Participatory Music and Arts
- Part II The 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture
- Part III A 2013 Perspective
- Part IV Three Views on Music Education
- Part V Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music
- Appendices
- Index
Summary
Second Bernarr Rainbow Lecture, given at
the Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam
Street, London, 23 October 2000
Claus Moser, KCB, CBE, was created a Baron of Regent's Park in the London Borough of Camden in 2001. He was born in Berlin, studied at the London School of Economics and taught there, specialising in Social Statistics. He has been Chairman of the British Museum Development Trust (1993–2003); Chancellor of the Open University of Israel (1994–2004); and Chairman of Askonas-Holt Ltd (1990–2002). He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1984 to 1993, and served prominently on many committees covering a variety of subjects, including music. He was knighted in 1973. He is also a capable pianist, and at a recent count he had nineteen honorary degrees.
■ The arts at the centre
As I was thinking about this lecture, my mind kept going back to childhood in Berlin. Inevitably my main thought was of the beginnings of one of the most evil times in history – which none of us can ever forget. But I also remember with gratitude that it was in those years that my lifelong passion for music took root. In the 1920s and pre-Hitler's 1930s, there was probably no other country as culture-rich as Germany. Berlin's musical life was exciting beyond belief, and any child with the slightest interest in great music had a wonderful time.
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- Music Education in CrisisThe Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments, pp. 19 - 36Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013