Australian Band & Orchestra Director's Association (ABODA).

Australia's one-stop music making campaign. Music Play For Life is a campaign devised to get all Australians making music - www.mca.org.au/index.php?id=192.

Music makers is all about creating more musicians for today and tomorrow. Music for a hobby, music in schools, music for health and wellbeing - www.musicmakers.org.au.

Find out the positive effects on academic, mental functioning and social skills resulting from a music education - www.mca.org.au/index.php?id=226.

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The Music Council of Australia (MCA) provides information, and organises research, advocacy and projects to advance music and musical life in Australia and the world. www.mca.org.au.

Jerry Nowak.

Australian Clarinet & Saxophone (a Publication of the Queensland Clarinet & Saxophone Society).

Wynton Marsalis