Reblog → Wider culture
This one lit up the music writers’ blogs last week, for obvious reasons.
The New Statesman, in association with the Royal Academy of Music, is delighted to announce the launch of its Young Music Critic competition. We are looking for classical music writers under 30. If you have a passion for, and knowledge of, the canon, but are also interested in pop, jazz, politics or the wider culture, and if your love of music is equal to your love of the written word, submit your work to our distinguished panel of judges.
What I notice is the stark contrast between this endeavor’s encouragement of broad-minded and culturally relevant work in music writing and the almost complete lack thereof in standard conservatory curricula and competition guidelines for performers. [Found here on Tumblr via Yay, it’s Rob]
