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ANGUS REID speaks to Romain Malan about his remarkable drive to bring music into deprived communities and healthcare settings
(L) A "Cuppa Concert" in north London; (R) Romaine Malan with a student from the "ignition" tuition programme
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
ROMAIN MALAN was all set for a conventional training in music, first in France and then at the Royal College of Music in London. But, in his final year, his mother became ill and the experience of playing to her as her Alzheimer’s progressed changed his enire approach to music.
The immense benefit, for both for musicians and listeners, of live music in a healthcare environment became the guiding light and, graduating from RCM he took a second degree in community arts at Goldsmiths. If the revelation was to play Bach to his mother as she was dying, the foundation for his World Music Orchestra project was laid by an extraordinary course for qualified artists who wish to work in community arts.
“I have always been deeply aware,” says Malan, “of the power of music in both healing and empowering people.”
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