We live in a world where we are constantly being offered, or at least promised, the ‘future’. Whether it is in a new car, an airline seat, or even in a packet of corn flakes, it would seem that every aspect of our everyday life can be transformed by the future in the here and now. One wonders what the future actually will be like if we are already being offered the opportunity to experience it today. So what might the ‘future’ of music education be, and how desirable is our perception of ‘tomorrow’ in today’s ever-changing world? None of us can escape the only too apparent effect that the global financial crunch is having on every aspect of life. While some continue to use the rhetoric of bl...