Building Listening
Hear Here! draws to a close at the end of the year, so it seems fitting that over the last three months we turn our attention to look at the role of listening within education. This final quarter, titled 'Building Listening', will look at how we are taught to listen, and how we can build on early listening experiences to become more adept at listening to music and how the skill of listening can be looked at creatively within the classroom.
The main focus over this quarter will be the Building Listening School Project. Working with seven primary schools in Cardiff and continuing our partnership with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, the project is an education initiative designed to investigate and evaluate how children are taught to listen to music within mainstream classroom music lessons. Feedback and results from the project will be made available and full information can be found in the Explore Listening section.
Hear Here!'s performance partners this autumn include Canterbury Festival, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra covering works by Haydn, Bruch and Mussorgsky and 12:21 continues its focus on contemporary composers featuring Julian Anderson, Judith Weir and Jonathan Harvey.
Our series of talks and debates continues with three events taking place at the Canterbury Festival, ranging from assessing the influence of the internet on our listening to how Haydn came to write The Creation. In addition, on Halloween, Hear Here! will be teaming up with the Battle of Ideas for a debate about the importance of listening to music - do we actually need to listen? Panellists include critic Ivan Hewett and writer Philip Hensher.
Over the past two years Hear Here! has looked at a wide range of areas, topics and issues connected with listening, making connections with institutions, organisations and charities across the UK. To celebrate the project and the skill of listening, Classic FM will be featuring a National Listening Day on-air on Tuesday 17 November. With competitions and challenges to test your listening, the day will offer you an opportunity to consider and evaluate how you listen in daily life. Mark the date in your diary and tune-in!
Happy Listening!
Tom Hutchinson
Hear Here! Project Co-ordinator
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