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Fri 01 Jan 2010President attends event promoting music to youth
“THIS IS the best day’s craic I’ve ever had,” declared President Mary McAleese yesterday to an audience of exuberant primary school children at Limerick’s University Concert Hall.
The President then led the audience in singing Happy Birthdayto celebrate the 21st anniversary of Music in the Classroom, an initiative established in 1989, to introduce orchestral music to young people. She thanked sponsors The Irish Timesand RTÉ “who put their hearts and souls into it every year”.
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