Sir, Miriam Wilkins points out the value of music education in making young people into team players (“Con brio”, letter, July 4). Quite right. However, I suspect that a lot of employers who value that skill do not recognise that music fosters it at least as well as playing team sports.
Combining an individually developed skill with the ability to apply it as part of a band or orchestra is exactly what employers are looking for when their recruitment adverts state “must be a self-starter and a team player”.
If the music world were to sell this benefit to business, corporate leaders would lend their considerable weight to maintaining and promoting music education.
Paul Clapham
Margate, Kent