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News Letter - March 2007

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Melody would like to draw your attention to the following forthcoming events.

 Instrumental Teaching for pupils with a Learning Disability

Workshop for Music Teachers

  Melody Show Case Concert

If you know someone with a learning disability who plays a musical instrument and would like to take part in this event, we would like to hear from you

  

Support Melody and take part in the Great Midlands Fun Run, Sutton Coldfield

Sunday June 3rd 2007

   

For further details about both these events please contact Rosie Cross.

   

We are happy to arrange Workshops for Teachers and Show Case Concerts in your area.  If you are interested, please contact Rosie Cross for further information.

 

Thanks to Tom Adams, our webmaster, the Melody website is about to undergo a radical update.  We will let you know when it is up and running.  In the meantime the original one is still there for you to visit.

 

Melody Trustee Noriko Tsuzaki has set up “Special Virtuosi in Manchester.  It has been up and running since January and is going from strength to strength.  People with a learning disability attend on either a Tuesday or Wednesday and become involved with musicianship classes and ensemble playing.  They also, thanks to Noriko’s impressive list of tutors, receive an instrumental lesson once a week as well.

Noriko has established this with the help and support of the Royal College of Music in Manchester where she has been a postgraduate student.  If you would like to learn more about Special Virtuosi, please contact Noriko.

 

We hope that gradually Special Virtuosi groups may be set up in other areas as well as Manchester.  We would be pleased to hear from anyone who may be interested in helping to establish such a group.