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Posted on 16 December 2019
Dr Daisy Fancourt introduces the first World Health Organisation report on the evidence base for arts and health interventions.For the last 18...
Posted on 29 November 2019
In February 2019, Surrey County Council Cabinet finally agreed that the charity, NewSPAL (New Surrey Performing Arts Library), would be allowed to...
Posted on 5 November 2019
The #ChangeTheTune campaign has taken the first step in formally challenging the legality of charging fees for instrumental tuition in schools.Making...
Posted on 4 November 2019
The OHMI Trust is a UK based charity that works to remove the barriers to music making faced by people with physical disabilities. Rachel Wolffsohn,...
Posted on 28 October 2019
Sŵn Festival co-founder to provide fresh voice for leisure-time music in Wales.Making Music is delighted to announce the appointment of John...
Posted on 7 October 2019
Tommaso Napoli, President of Italy's AIMA (Associazione Italiana Musicisti Amatori), discusses how his organisation is working to...
Posted on 30 September 2019
In September, Making Music hosted a symposium with key figures in the music sector to identify the barriers and needs of adults of all ages,...
Posted on 27 September 2019
PRS for Music, the live performance royalty collection body for music in the UK, is currently consulting on proposed changes and increases to the...
Posted on 11 September 2019
Arts Council England (ACE) is consulting about its next 10-year strategy, due to run from 2020 to 2030. ACE is urging everyone – from...
Posted on 5 March 2019
The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM), long at the forefront of lobbying for music (and arts) education in schools, has just launched its new...
Posted on 7 February 2019
Making Music is dismayed at the news in the past week of local authorities in Scotland hiking up fees for instrumental tuition in schools and...
Posted on 6 February 2019
What are professional orchestras up to these days – what do they see as their future and mission, how do they relate to the places they find...