Once a rare break from restrictive rules governing the behaviour of rural young women who were not allowed to sing aloud or go out at night, except during the Chuseok Thanksgiving celebration, the ritual is mostly preserved today by middle-aged women in cities and taught as part of the music curriculum of elementary schools.

UNESCO: Culture

Secondly, Claire Redfarn is correct when she says that the standard of music teaching (and, more importantly, the curriculum) is woeful.

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Sir Michael didn't come from a musical family and, when he was at school, music wasn't taken seriously as a subject on the curriculum of England's schools.

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It had been heavily criticised by teaching unions and some groups, especially those involved in the arts, who said it would narrow the curriculum and that fewer young people would study art and music and other non-Bacc subjects as a result of it.

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