Re: Re: Re: Saving Orchestras


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Posted by Volker on May 05, 2003 at 02:48:50:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Saving Orchestras posted by yes, un-popular on May 04, 2003 at 21:45:51:

Completely agreeable with me! However, after all, it's a matter of politics. If you leave almost everything to the private market, then you have to deal with the advantage and disadvantage of capitalism (that sometimes shows an ugly grimace). If you have a soft kind of capitalism (rather than the rude form), you can depend on a higher gouvernment share in all subjects of non-profitable culture costs; if not, private organizations just promote what is emerging profit or better: most profit! In Germany (for example) we have 2 kinds of TV channels: public/gouvernment related ones and private commercial ones.
The public channels are obliged to offer a wide cultural varity share of the program, whereas the private ones just satisfy the quantity mass requirements. And really: WHAT A DIFFERENCE IN QUALITY! If you have the commercial line only, where should future youngsters form their cultur taste from the beginning? How can they develope their love to classic music, if they are less and less confronted with it? Most western industrial countries have been enjoying the motto: Money and profit is the only thing that counts. Now, in these hard global ecnomical times, we have to deal with the shadows of this system. We can't always just pick the raisins!


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