The College Music Society’s report Transforming Music Study from its Foundations: A Manifesto for Progressive Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors

A lecture on the The Public Mission of Research Universities

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Citizen Musician project.

Leon Wieseltier’s commencement ceremony address to Brandeis University: Perhaps Culture is the New Counterculture

UN report on: The right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity.  A summary can be found here.

NY Times report from 2004 on graduands from the Julliard School, ten years later.

A manifesto for how universities can transform themselves to be relevant to the biggest human issues. Conservatoires could take this as a model.

Aaron Gervais’s blog on the issue of accessibility and elitism in classical music.

Philosopher Judith Bulter’s commencement speech to McGill.  The value of reading.  Might it apply to the value of listening, too?

A commentary piece from The Guardian by George Packer, author of The Unwinding

Jonathan Freedland on how the Internet is changing everything, especially us.

Jesse Rosen, President and CEO of the League of American Orchestras on the provocative challenges that face orchestras today.

The Times HIgher Education Supplement on music schools and economics.

The New York Times’ David Brooks on the vocational calling of the humanities.

From the Aspen Festival:  Music is the Mission, not Money.

A debate about data detailing a decline in enrolments in the humanities in the USA

NPR’s report on Opera and Social Protest in Portugal

A call for reform of the Musikhochschule system in Germany (in German)

A powerful critique of our corporate culture of giving from Warren Buffett’s son, a composer

Mark Ravenhill’s opening address to the Edinburgh Fringe, on the artist’s relationship to society.

Download Being – In Tune: Seeking ways of addressing isolation and dislocation through engaging in the arts by Peter Renshaw–a ‘provocation paper, commissioned by the Guildhall School and the Barbican Centre is intended to generate discussion about the power of the arts to make a difference.’

“Alternative Globalizations”  A special Canadian Theatre Review issue that examines ways in which Canadian theatre companies and performers are working to create an alternative sense of what globalization could mean. The issue looks especially at how Canadian artists are connecting to those in other countries, creating horizontal networks of performance that function outside the logic of market-based consumption to make the flows of globalization visible. It aims to re-envision what it might mean to participate as a citizen, rather than simply as a consumer, in an increasingly globalized flow of performances.

A new UNESCO report that explores ways to meet the need for encouraging new policy pathways that could encourage creativity and innovation in the pursuit of inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth and development.