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- The Royal College of Music and Its Contexts
- Music Since 1900
- The Royal College of Music and Its Contexts
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Building and Consolidating (1883–1914)
- Part II Renewal and Conventionality (1919–1960)
- Part III Changing Musical Cultures (1960–1984)
- Part IV Into Its Second Century, 1984–2018
- 9 A Changed State of Rivalry
- 10 The New Realities of Accounting and Assuring
- 11 Reimagining for the Future
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Index
11 - Reimagining for the Future
from Part IV - Into Its Second Century, 1984–2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2019
- The Royal College of Music and Its Contexts
- Music Since 1900
- The Royal College of Music and Its Contexts
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Building and Consolidating (1883–1914)
- Part II Renewal and Conventionality (1919–1960)
- Part III Changing Musical Cultures (1960–1984)
- Part IV Into Its Second Century, 1984–2018
- 9 A Changed State of Rivalry
- 10 The New Realities of Accounting and Assuring
- 11 Reimagining for the Future
- Epilogue
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Under Colin Lawson, the College has embarked upon a major fundraising strategy, ‘More Music: Reimagining the RCM’. Its underlying purpose has been to equip the RCM more completely as an international competitor for musical talent, with world-class facilities and communications, and established academic partnerships in China and the Far East. This has involved an intensive building programme to provide more performance, practice and social space within the East courtyard and to develop and rehouse the RCM’s museum within dedicated facilities. There has also been the purchase of the nearby Markova House, which has greatly expanded the College’s physical resources, and the College Hall site has been redeveloped to provide more secure and better-quality student housing. This chapter also looks at how the College’s museum strategy offering digital, as well as physical, access to its holdings has given a new centrality to its historical collections. It also discusses how the new field of cultural economics has shown that the financial support for music training is now more readily acknowledged to be a financial investment, rather than a luxury.
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- The Royal College of Music and its ContextsAn Artistic and Social History, pp. 330 - 339Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019