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  • 2000 - Music and Eduction: Towards a Non-Philistine Society

  • from Part I - Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
  • Edited by Peter Dickinson
  • Book:
    Music Education in Crisis
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 October 2013
    Print publication:
    15 August 2013, pp 19-36

  • Summary

    Second Bernarr Rainbow Lecture, given at

    the Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam

    Street, London, 23 October 2000

    Claus Moser, KCB, CBE, was created a Baron of Regent's Park in the London Borough of Camden in 2001. He was born in Berlin, studied at the London School of Economics and taught there, specialising in Social Statistics. He has been Chairman of the British Museum Development Trust (1993–2003); Chancellor of the Open University of Israel (1994–2004); and Chairman of Askonas-Holt Ltd (1990–2002). He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1984 to 1993, and served prominently on many committees covering a variety of subjects, including music. He was knighted in 1973. He is also a capable pianist, and at a recent count he had nineteen honorary degrees.

    ■ The arts at the centre

    As I was thinking about this lecture, my mind kept going back to childhood in Berlin. Inevitably my main thought was of the beginnings of one of the most evil times in history – which none of us can ever forget. But I also remember with gratitude that it was in those years that my lifelong passion for music took root. In the 1920s and pre-Hitler's 1930s, there was probably no other country as culture-rich as Germany. Berlin's musical life was exciting beyond belief, and any child with the slightest interest in great music had a wonderful time.