Meanwhile, the shortlist nominations for The Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards have also been announced.
"We're a music society - we love music and we certainly don't want to put people off going to clubs, venues and festivals, " the 22-year-old from London told BBC News.
The project aims to transform society through music, reflecting the idea that orchestral and choral practice gives children and youth important values and helps preserve them from the dangers of drugs and crime.
Reports say that advertising provides about 86% of the financing for file-sharing sites that feature illegally distributed content, according to a report funded by Google and the Performing Rights Society for Music in Britain.
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When she was 15, Fu founded a non-profit group, Visual Arts and Music for Society, that organizes high school volunteers to play music, do art projects and perform in homeless shelters, hospitals, orphanages and senior residences.
To some, this analysis of music and society may seem no less far-fetched than Plato's.
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In a society silenced by censorship, music was a means of expression - not that it was permitted to be so.
Jazz musician Buster Birch described the change as "a huge thing", adding that live music is "very important for our society and our culture".
But in a world where the UN predicts that by 2010, one in five people will be over 60, and failing memory is likely to become an important challenge for society, more rigorous research into the link between music and memory is much needed, says the team.
The dispute centres around the commercial value of broadcasting rights, and the BBC has been unable broadcast Welsh language music represented by Eos, the new collecting society for Welsh language composers and publishers, since 1 January.
In practice it means that if a French radio station plays music by a UK artist, the French national collecting society collects the revenue.
In addition to being a country music artist, Walker is also an ambassador for the National MS Society and a paid spokesman for Teva Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of one of nine medications approved for treating relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
Jill Venn, chairman of Taunton Amateur Operatic Society, said their main aim was to ensure their production of The Sound of Music took place in April.
This is music with humble beginnings -- roots in slavery and segregation, a society that rarely treated black Americans with the dignity and respect that they deserved.
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Will Newton, a fourth-year economics student and the society's treasurer, said the aim was to make young people realise how to minimise the damaging effects loud music can have on hearing.
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