A land without music?
Is our musical culture facing an existential threat? With ever smaller numbers of young people learning instruments, the gradual erasing of music from state education and years of declining funding, things may be worse than you think. Sound World investigates the state of music today and looks at what we can do to safeguard it for future generations.
Latest Episode
Music and Health (15.09.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The Jörg Widmann Interview: Part 2
- The Jörg Widmann Interview: Part 1
- The Sally Beamish Interview
- Funding The Arts
- The Sadie Harrison Interview
- Composers Today: crossing the divide
- The Evelyn Glennie Interview
- Classical Music Today
- The Iain McGilchrist Interview Part 2
- The Iain McGilchrist Interview
- The Peter Flach Interview
- Technology and AI
- The John Pickard Interview
- Music in Education Part 3: how we teach music.
- The Nico Muhly Interview
- Music in Education Part 2: what we teach.
- The thinking behind the series
- The Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason Interview
- Music in Eduction Part 1: what children gain from music.
- The Jess Gillam Interview
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