Back to school
Build back better, the UK government’s alliterative mantra, is unlikely to reassure music teachers whose work has been axed during COVID. Music has been removed from the curriculum in one in ten primary and secondary schools and is no longer an extracurricular activity in around two-thirds of Britain’s secondaries. Yet for all its destructive harm, the pandemic has inspired fresh initiatives as ensembles across the land are finding new ways to become more embedded in schools and communities.
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE), for instance, set a new precedent
