NYO rehearsals combine aspiration, inspiration, learning and teaching in a dynamic process of musical development.
Taxpayers' money should go to support the learning and aspirations of our children, not into the bank accounts of those who seek to make a quick profit or bleed the system dry".
Sun's list included a trip to Wimbledon; climbing Mt. Snowdon, in Wales; and a range of musical aspirations — from learning the Bach sonatas and partitas to performing the first violin part in Mendelssohn's Octet in E-Flat Major.
In fact, this past summer I conducted a series of town halls on college campuses across the country to better understand the wants and needs of Gen Z. From learning about their career aspirations to the types of companies they want to work for, I was interested in how they related to, and differed from, their Millennial counterparts.
Or can we just say that if happiness is one's aspiration, then learning about the history of the slave trade, say, or watching the news, or indeed ageing are all to be avoided.
Nanjing's motto is "Be sincere and hold high aspirations, learn diligently and practice earnestly".
This not only meant that members across the country felt alienated, demoralised and ignored, but more importantly their collective understanding of people's fears and aspirations, learnt from listening to the public and knocking on doors, was being deliberately overlooked.
Fifty, 100, even 500 years hence people will be able to see how their forebears looked and moved, hear them speak, learn about their aspirations and achievements and that sizzling ski trip to Vermont.
We are still enacting its thesis, still, after all these years, learning how to embody its aspirations.
Umrana Khan, post-16 learning and aspiration coach at Carlton Bolling, says: "There needs to be a relationship there [with the community] for us to be effective, and to enable our young people to develop opportunities for themselves as well".
