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Margaret O'Shea
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Margaret O'Shea
@MargaretOShea22
Leading on Creative and Extended Curriculum for a great MAT. Conductor with @FarnhamYouthChr. Proud trustee @NatYouthChoir
London, UK Katılım Şubat 2009
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@MargaretOShea22 @EnglishCadence @Johnfinney8 Some contributions framed it as such. But just drawing on this as an example of how certain discourses around theory/notation can have a distorting effect on teaching music musically.
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In general children learn to read music (staff notation) through a sustained period of engagement with one of a particular set of instruments. While the voice is a means to the same end it is invariably supplemented by instrumental learning as Tudor Song Schools realised. 1/
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@GarySpruce1 @EnglishCadence @Johnfinney8 As in, someone was saying that teaching the alto clef to Y7s was in indication of rigour?
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@EnglishCadence @Johnfinney8 Yes, I agree and this is part of the rational conversation we should be having. Problem is it’s often presented as a binary, simplistically or as an indicator of ‘rigour’. Reading a thread last night where teaching the alto clef to year 7s was being discussed in such terms.
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@sgtoyne On the way home from @FarnhamYouthChr concert a French lady in our train carriage was streaming the service live. Cue an 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 cultural exchange as we sang along & shared hopes for a peaceful future. What an *immensely* wonderful thing. TY @colmflynnire, always so supportive! 🎵
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Thrilling, deeply spiritual, visceral organ improvisation from Oliver Latry - music taking us all to a place beyond words
Colm Flynn@colmflynnire
Notre Dame's famous Grand Organ with its 8,000 pipes, sounds out once again throughout the cathedral.
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@paddycosgrave What about 35-65? Everyone I spoke to yesterday voted on some variation of: SD-Lab-Green.
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The differences between how younger voters, the future of Ireland, voted as compared to those who are mostly retired & asset rich is INSANE.
This election once again is a story of two Irelands. The future of Ireland versus yesterday’s Ireland. Both have very different visions.
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@MusicEdu4all @TheIFS Yup. But the growing body of robust evidence around the fiscal and economic aspects are a helpful underpinning for all of us.
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@MargaretOShea22 @TheIFS That's not to mention the social and human cost, which you can't put a value on.
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🥹🙌🏻🙌🏻 And how timely in a week where @TheIFS publishes their findings that the closure of youth clubs has not been cost-effective; for every £1 saved from closures, there are associated losses of nearly £3 due to forgone returns to education and crime costs. Who’dv guessed. 🤷🏻♀️
Ezra Collective@EzraCollective
From a youth club to Wembley Arena. Thank you for dancing with us London. Thank you for turning that room into a temple of joy. And to everyone that danced with us on this tour. God Bless you all. With love Femi, TJ, Joe, Ife and James EZ to the world
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@LaurenceOsborn @IvorsAcademy @12ensemble @GBSRduo @NNFest @cheltfestivals @KingsPlace Whooooooooo!!!! Amazing news Laurence :))))
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@KESMusicNet How awesome!! Hope that plethora (?!) of boys are heading towards @natyouthchoir!
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Chapel Choir putting the finishing touches to Trotta’s ‘Dies Irae’ for performance in this Thursday’s Michaelmas Concert.
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@Steven_Berryman @Sadlers_Wells Did you get to it this week? *Incred*
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sadlerswells.com/digital-stage/… - watchable for no cost @Sadlers_Wells digital 👇
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@ChristineBohan Literally just posted the same thing on ‘the other’ platform. The problem is *entirely* the laughing and carousing. And arguably inviting MOL to ‘launch’ you to public service when he holds an open disdain for public life. It’s gross. 🤢
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The problem for FG here isn’t Michael O’Leary’s comments about teachers. Of course that’s what he thinks! Anyone pretending to be shocked by them has been asleep for the past 20 years. The issue is the reaction of all the FG supporters and members in the room who laughed so loudly at MOL. That is not going to play well with teachers - not exactly a group you want to annoy this early in the campaign.
James Donnelly 🇮🇪@JamesDonnellySF
Last night Fine Gael minister Peter Burke had Michael O’Leary (yes that one) launch his election campaign in Mullingar. The sheer hypocrisy to have him on stage whinging about government wasting money at a government TD’s event. 😂😂😂 Fine Gael don’t care about the working class. That’s evident. And Mr. O’Leary (who’s worth about a billion euro, fair play to him) certainly doesn’t either. Insults to teachers, left-wing parties, you name it he said it. And then to top it all off, he made it abundantly clear that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are two cheeks of the same arse by telling people to transfer between FG and FF. This is who Fine Gael are.
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@mrgrahamross @ClareCollege @BBCSingers How cool is that!!!! Looking forward to hearing the fruits of your labour!
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…and to @ClareCollege for granting me leave. My focus will include the creation of a major new concert work about Antarctica, which the @BBCSingers will premiere in 2025.
More: spri.cam.ac.uk/friends/musici…
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Some news…! I’m thrilled to be appointed @FoSPRI Musician in Residence 2025, travelling to Antarctica in Jan-Feb for a composition residency like no other. I’m very grateful to the Friends of @scottpolar, the @RoyalNavy, and @hmsprotector for this incredible opportunity. [1/2]
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@Steven_Berryman @AJPettway1 @adamboxer1 I’m surprised any music teacher would think it wasn’t important 🤔
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@AJPettway1 @adamboxer1 Interesting… I think ratio is important in music, too (I’m a music teacher).
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How would you respond to a music teacher that says the PD on thinking ratio isn’t for them because they teach skills and not knowledge? Is music so different that there is no value there?@adamboxer1
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@dmthomas90 Thanks to you and team for what I've heard was a really life-enriching experience. Grateful for your support and for these opportunities for young people who simply would not have them otherwise!
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This was a wonderful event to be part of. Watching a seriously diverse set of young people realise that they can all be part of one exciting community of mathematicians was just magical.
Axiom Maths@AxiomMaths
This August we held our first ever summer school, bringing 90 up and coming mathematicians from around the country together for three days at Churchill College, Cambridge. Well done to everyone who attended!
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@Hanna_Miller_PE @ExodusTravels Ah!! Congratulations!!! The sickness is next level 😄
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@bernardlhughes @Samfr It's a kicker isn't it! Though arguably the real sucker punch is that despite it being pretty common knowledge that this is what happened, there has been outright denial of its negative impact, and worse, a sense that those who have robust evidence are making it up.
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@nigelmtaylor Drama and Sport aren’t in the National Curriculum so perhaps a clarifying of that would be useful place to start if we’re talking about every child’s entitlement.
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This is encouraging.
But I hope it's not only "access" to music et al.
The review needs to set out how young people are included, make good musical progress and achieve high standards.
Access is a start, but it can't be the only goal.
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP
Our Curriculum & Assessment Review will give every child: 🧮 Strong foundations in core subjects 🎨 Access to music, sport, art & drama 🗣️ More digital, speaking & life skills We'll deliver a broad, rich curriculum so children leave education ready for life, work & the future.
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Not sure if you get down to these parts often now @Andy__Buck but don’t miss the chance to see this @ChichesterFT @CamMackLtd @SirMattBourne production of Oliver! when it goes to London. Absolutely brilliant! #onceaFaginalways…!
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“If you wanted to overturn all the false assumptions about classical music at a stroke, this surprising, inspiring concert is the way to do it.” Another 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 review of the First Night of the @bbcproms, this time from @jessicaduchen @theipaper: inews.co.uk/culture/arts/f…
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@amybebbs1 Desperately hoping I’ll be able to make this!
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*New closing date* On request, Dublin Choral Conducting and Composition Masterclasses has extended the closing date for applications to July 31. Apply here now! dcu.ie/theologyphilos…
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