{"id":15081,"date":"2013-10-04T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15081"},"modified":"2013-10-04T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:53:07","slug":"5-million-donation-boosts-torontos-royal-conservatorys-expansion-beyond-traditional-music-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/10\/04\/5-million-donation-boosts-torontos-royal-conservatorys-expansion-beyond-traditional-music-education\/","title":{"rendered":"$5 million donation boosts Toronto&#8217;s Royal Conservatory&#8217;s expansion beyond traditional music education"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15083\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Presidents-Page2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15083\" alt=\"Marily Thomson with, from left, Royal Conservatory president Peter Simon, Richard Margison and Bruce Cockburn (undated RCM photo).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Presidents-Page2.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marilyn Thomson with, from left, Royal Conservatory president Peter Simon, Richard Margison and Bruce Cockburn (undated RCM photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Royal Conservatory of Music today announced the creation of the Marilyn Thomson Early Childhood Education Centre, endowed by a $5 million gift from David, Peter and Taylor Thomson. This continues the school&#8217;s diversification outside traditional music education.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new organization, based at the school&#8217;s Telus Centre in Toronto, will &#8220;develop and deliver innovative early childhood education programs, teacher certification, and digital early childhood education products for use by parents and their children,&#8221; said the press release.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Thomson, widow of Thomson Corp. heir Ken Thomson, is an alumna and longtime patron of the school&#8217;s music education programmes. Part of the Centre&#8217;s mission will be to introduce children aged 3 and under to music through a variety of means, including digital apps.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Conservatory of Music today announced the creation of the Marilyn Thomson Early Childhood Education Centre, endowed by a $5 million gift from David, Peter and Taylor Thomson. This continues the school&#8217;s diversification outside traditional music education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,22,36,39,63,1],"tags":[6451,3977,6457,3978,3976,2887],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Presidents-Page2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3Vf","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15086,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions\/15086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15081"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}