From Maureen Lehane Wishart, Artistic Director, Jackdaws Educational Trust
In your feature on Creative Partnerships (ArtsProfessional, issue 85, November 1), I am mildly surprised to read one contributor give the impression that this type of work is something entirely new. Jackdaws Educational Trust has been working in this way with schools for the past eight years, and without the benefit of £40m. We work with children from very rural and often deprived neighbourhoods, providing them with the best quality teaching and the highest qualified teachers, and enabling them to work with the most exceptional musicians, such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Dufay Collective and pianist Philip Fowke. I?m all in favour of Creative Partnerships; but please don?t tell me that it?s new. It?s what I?ve been giving my blood, sweat and tears for, for the past decade!
Published: 29-11-2004