Archive: Report Card on the State of Music Education in Ontario

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Host John Miller talks with David Kent, principal timpanist with the Toronto Symphony, Don McKeller, Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario, and Sharon Fitzsimmins, Music Director at Barrie North Collegiate, about the state of music education in Ontario's schools.
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Jun 11, 1993
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