Singing Ambassador Howard Goodall gave an inspiring keynote speech at the MusicLearningLive conference on 31 Jan 2008, as persuasive as ever on the subject of the transformative power of music. From the significance of the coffee shop boom to the latest developments in cognitive science, he brought a wealth of evidence on the importance of music - and singing in particular - in a child's education.
Click here to listen to the speech in full
Or listen in sections:
Part 1 - 'Singing is a species entitlement'
Part 2 - Sing Up
Part 3 - The science of singing
Part 4 - Lessons from Ivaldo Bertazzo
Part 5 - Finding focus
We follow up another Music Manifesto pledge with Andy Preston, programme director of Edujam.
Music Manifesto's Beth Allwood reports on the recent national event.