On 1/31/06 5:30 AM, David Fenton wrote: >> So, Carl, yes you are exactly right. Get rid of high prices and >> snootiness, and classical music of every stripe flourishes. > > Er, when somebody pays the musicians so that the audience doesn't > have to pay. > > Which gets us back to the US vs. Europe comparison, since in the US, > public subsidy is relatively rare.
Of course someone has to pay. The point is that if you get rid of the snootiness and demonstrate wide appeal, subsidy -- in our case, almost exclusively private -- is MUCH easier to come by. David Froom _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
