Mathieson Music School
TThe Mathieson Music School, in a village on the edges of Calcutta, provides the children with tuition in all subjects but has a particular focus on music, in both Western and Indian traditions.
VThe children at the school are selected on a basis of need, either because they are orphans or come from destitute, illiterate and often emotionally disturbed backgrounds.
Musical training not only furnishes the children with a way of expressing themselves, but offers them the means of life-long employment: the flourishing Indian film industry, military establishments, hotel and entertainment sectors are all crying out for Indians literate in Western music.
A trained musician has an earning potential 2 or 3 times that of the average Indian school leaver, and the majority of Mathieson ex-pupils have obtained work solely because of the musical skills acquired at the school.
