This post relates to my abstract for the IGU session I will be chairing in July 2022 in Paris.
As part of the conference, I am currently writing the abstract for what will be a longer paper, which I will have 15 minutes-ish to present followed by questions.
It relates to the GA's current work, led by Eleanor Rawling to develop a national curriculum framework for school geography.
The abstract starts off with a mention for Benjamin Britten.
In 1964, he was awarded the Robert O Anderson Aspen Award for the Humanities.
When I am asked to compose a work for an occasion, great or small, I want to know in some detail the conditions of the place where it will be performed, the size and acoustics, what instruments or singers will be available and suitable, the kind of people who will hear it, and what language they will understand—and even sometimes the age of the listeners and performers. For its is futile to offer children music by which they are bored, or which makes them feel inadequate or frustrated, which may set them against music forever; and its is insulting to address anyone in a language which they do not understand.
Source: http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/benjamin-britten/
(C) Britten Pears Foundation
Image: Maggie Hambling's Scallop on the beach near Aldeburgh - Alan Parkinson - shared under CC license.
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