Scotland’s national music school is calling for everyone to get behind a new campaign launched today, to support the plan for the Old Royal High School on Calton Hill to become the new home for St Mary’s Music School. The Note campaign is all about striking the right note – a polite and tuneful one – to emphasise to supporters, the residents of Edinburgh, and politicians that the battle to save the Old Royal High from inappropriate development is still ongoing. The campaign will inviting supporters to send ‘a polite note’ to the First Minister registering their support for the development of the historic building as a new home of St Mary’s Music School.
Dr Kenneth Taylor, Headteacher, said:
“The aim of the Note campaign is to send a simple message using a simple, polite but witty visual reminder, that the future of the Old Royal High School is still undecided and that it’s particularly important that the Scottish Government is aware of the strength of feeling about the future of the Old Royal High."
“We have been greatly heartened by the size and strength of the wonderful support we have already received from so many people in Edinburgh, as well as prominent figures in the arts and music community – Nicola Benedetti, Sir James MacMillan, Alexander Armstrong and Steven Osborne, to name just a few. "
“Scotland’s national music school exists to provide specialist music education to musically young musicians from across Scotland and beyond, regardless of their financial circumstances. Our school provides the next generation of musicians and world-renowned performance artists across all fields of music from classical to jazz and traditional."
“Moving to the Old Royal High School would give the school increased capacity, allowing us to offer a specialist music education to more young people of outstanding music ability. Furthermore, we could open our doors to Edinburgh, Scotland and internationally with a whole range of new music activities. So we would become much more of a community asset than we could possibly be in our present location.”
More information about our plans and the Perfect Harmony campaign
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