I read elsewhere that conductor Bill Eddins has posed a proposal that the NEA be killed entirely. He's a political liberal, so it's not knee-jerk anti-liberal-society-ism motivating him.
N6TQS - yeah, exactly. It is amazing what these billionaire guys spend their money on. (sez she whose billionaire bosses own a jetliner). If I had that kind of money, I'd have a personal composer-in-residence program, a personal string-quartet-in-residence program, and, hell- my own orchestra. Maybe it would be a chamber orchestra - but an orchestra!
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Wow.
I guess everyone who thought we could fund the war in Afghanistan by cutting off support to the arts had better do some recalculating...
I read elsewhere that conductor Bill Eddins has posed a proposal that the NEA be killed entirely. He's a political liberal, so it's not knee-jerk anti-liberal-society-ism motivating him.
N6TQS - yeah, exactly. It is amazing what these billionaire guys spend their money on. (sez she whose billionaire bosses own a jetliner). If I had that kind of money, I'd have a personal composer-in-residence program, a personal string-quartet-in-residence program, and, hell- my own orchestra. Maybe it would be a chamber orchestra - but an orchestra!
Paul - yeah.
Here is the Bill Eddins piece:
http://www.insidethearts.com/sticksanddrones/2010/11/03/bill-eddins/2882/
Thanks!
I would hire Joseph Haydn as my personal composer, and tell him to write nothing in any key less eccentric than F-sharp minor.
You'd hire him even though he's dead? Eeeeeuuuwwww.
1) If I were a rich man (dydle diddy dydle etc), sufficiently rich ... Would Donald Trump let that stop him?
2) He could write Ghost Trios.
3) Shh! He's decomposing.
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