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8 - Crossing the RCM Century

David Willcocks, 1974–1984

from Part III - Changing Musical Cultures (1960–1984)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2019

David C. H. Wright
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
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Willcocks led by musical example, and his performances with the College orchestra and chorus helped the success of the Centenary appeal and raised the College’s profile. Willcocks was pleased for the College to undertake concerts of repertoire he had little interest in, as long as standards were high, and so early and contemporary performance flourished. The RCM Centenary was vigorously pursued across the College, and its success raised enough money for the new, integrated, library service, new social space and to build the Britten Theatre. The second Gulbenkian Report (1978) increased public awareness of the unfavourable funding of the conservatoires compared with universities. Relations with Whitehall continued to be difficult, but in Willcocks’s time the College was at last funded to pay its teaching staff on the national pay scales for other higher education institutions.

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The Royal College of Music and its Contexts
An Artistic and Social History
, pp. 286 - 306
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Crossing the RCM Century
  • David C. H. Wright, Royal College of Music, London
  • Book: The Royal College of Music and its Contexts
  • Online publication: 26 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316681336.010
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  • David C. H. Wright, Royal College of Music, London
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  • Crossing the RCM Century
  • David C. H. Wright, Royal College of Music, London
  • Book: The Royal College of Music and its Contexts
  • Online publication: 26 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316681336.010
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