![]() King Charles and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber after he was awarded Doctor of Music during the annual awards ceremony at the Royal College of Music in London (Heathcliff O’Malley/Daily Telegraph/PA) Lord Webber’s comments come off the back of Dame Kathryn McDowell, managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra, who said that she didn’t want classical music to become “the preserve of the rich” which she implied has become the case within the acting industry. I really do think that, because people are proud of their kids.” “If you saw a programme where it was saying that we’re going to do music in every single school, I mean I think you’d get so many votes. We see parents coming in to watch their children and sometimes their jaws drop,” he said. ![]() “If you’re a parent and you suddenly see that your child has got some huge interest, you become interested. The theatre impresario advised that there are “votes in this scheme” referencing the next election. “Is it the Ministry of Culture, is it Education, is it the Treasury?” Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber appears on LBC’s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast show, at the Global Studios, London (Stefan Rousseau/PA) Lord Webber said his repeated lobbying Government has always been met with a “yes of course”, continuing: “But the trouble is, as with everything with these schemes, it gets passed from department to department to department. It’s only £200 a child a year and we have every statistic that the Government can possibly want for 10 years of what this trust has done.” “For the Government to adopt it, or whichever party comes into power next, just adopt it. He continued: “It turned into a school which had its first student at Oxford (university) and that kid came back to teach there and it was all due to the music programming. But within three years of them having a free violin and having a weekly music lesson, the school completely turned around.” Lord Webber said: “The school was frankly a bit of a mess, I think everybody knew that. The programme began at the City of London Academy Highbury Grove secondary school and saw children in years seven to nine receive a free violin each and weekly music lessons. The Music In Secondary Schools Trust was established with funding from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the Charles Wolfson Trust and promises every child “an entitlement to study a classical musical instrument on entry into secondary school, as well as tuition and performance opportunities”. ![]() “It’s mind-blowing that nobody takes the scheme and does it,” he said.ġ0 years. Lord Webber appeared on LBC’s Nick Ferrari At Breakfast show on Wednesday advocating the well-documented benefits of the scheme to children’s behaviour, grades and self-awareness since its launch 10 years ago. ![]() The 75-year-old composer previously said his repeated lobbying for the Government to embrace the Music in Secondary Schools Trust programme has been met with a “vague fudgy nod”, but he is now encouraging musicians to “get together” to stop talking about it and “get it done”. ![]() Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has urged the Government to adopt a programme making classical music accessible to students in every secondary school to avoid it becoming “the preserve of the rich”. ![]()
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