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Published Date: 21 April 2009
By Ian McKee
THE health portfolio in the Scottish Parliament actually refers to health and wellbeing, so I used the latter description as an excuse to pay a much-anticipated visit to the Big Noise in Stirling.
You may have heard of this project, closely modelled on El Sistema in Venezuela, where a quarter of a million children from disadvantaged households have been encouraged to take up orchestral music.

The most gifted form the Simon Bolivar Orchestr...



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