Richard Ingrams wrote a column in the Catholic Herald (Sept 22, 2017), deeply regretting the tendency for music to be one of the first victims of financial pressure in schools today. In its defence, he quoted none other than Franz Schubert as follows:
"..writing about his reaction to hearing some music of Mozart's (unspecified): "So do these lovely impressions, which neither time nor circumstance can efface, remain in the mind and influence for good our whole exisitence. In the dark places of life they point to that clear shining and distant future in which our whole hope lies." "
How true that is, today as then. It should be as important an aspect of children's education for life as any other subject. It stands every chance of being something that will stay with them all their lives, long after they forgotten much of the rest.
