The Music Department is the heartbeat of any school. The ensembles, rehearsals, concerts, performances, musicals, friendships, expression, and an environment that brings young people together of all ages. If you want a healthy school, then you need a healthy Music Department.

Something to cheer us all up

The elite tech team tasked with trying to switch on Boris's phone.

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The catastrophe of Brexit, in one devastating thread

Have done first part of today’s Test Match Special rota for day 4 at Old Trafford. #BBCCricket #Ashes

An astonishing display of twenty of the world’s most beautiful libraries

ICYMI: ISM Chief Executive Deborah Annetts has written to ACE following ENO announcing cuts to its orchestra and chorus. The letter calls on ACE to step in and stop musicians from losing their jobs. ACE must think again. Read the letter in full below 👇 loom.ly/5SVTCog

Please keep sending your thoughts on the Brookes music closure to the VC and governors. A 12-month reprieve for all staff to develop new programmes would really help us. Steady stream of letters good - keep them coming.

Signatures still welcome.

Unsurprisingly, this statement is more notable for what it doesn’t say than what it does. No clues as to where or how often performances in Manchester will take place, and, more ominously, no mention of whether the current chorus, orchestra or technical team will be involved… 🐘

Signed!

Please support this important campaign: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/fair… via Megaphone UK

The AMF Awards application window will open on Monday 25 March. See website for details: australianmusicfoundation.com/award-applicat…

BREXIT has brought no benefits and instead may cause “terminal damage” to the UK’s music industry, the principal of a leading school has said. Read more from Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood. bit.ly/4bIZCil

Breaking the company’s silence, ⁦Welsh National Opera⁩’s music director ⁦Tomáš Hanus⁩ tells it like it is to ⁦Arts Council England⁩: “a budget that is not even sufficient for a small regional theatre, by comparison to other European countries.” wno.org.uk/news/an-open-l…

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I may have been quiet on here recently but I’ve been beavering away behind the scenes since getting back from holiday trying to #SaveWNO. To say this response from Chris Bryant is disappointing is an understatement. And reneges on Labour’s pledge to review Arts Council England. 1/ 🧵

RIP Elgar Howarth. 😢😢😢