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#3 Richard McNicol: “Music as a means”

25m · Music Touching Lives · 13 Jun 16:46

Pioneering music animateur Richard McNicol helped transform classical music’s engagement with the wider community, bringing orchestras into schools and encouraging them to look well beyond the concert hall stage.

He tells Tom Seligman how it all began, and why he’s still happiest in the classroom.

Find out more at www.fivesensesmusic.org

Original music by Lopesh www.lopesh.com

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#3 Richard McNicol: “Music as a means”

Pioneering music animateur Richard McNicol helped transform classical music’s engagement with the wider community, bringing orchestras into schools and encouraging them to look well beyond the concert hall stage.

He tells Tom Seligman how it all began, and why he’s still happiest in the classroom.

Find out more at www.fivesensesmusic.org

Original music by Lopesh www.lopesh.com

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