Saturday, August 28, 2010
We Get the Culture We Deserve
The situation at the OC Register for Tim Mangan is very frustrating. He has been given the People section, dramatically reducing his time to devote to classical coverage. He is one of our country’s finest music critics working in a county that has a rich supply of classical music performances, many very significant. I guess we should be grateful that he still has a job. What I don’t understand is where is the outrage from our music public? The same goes for Opera Pacific, R. I. P. During these crazy times, if we don’t come forward we could lose really big. Contributions are, of course, important. More important is participating, buying a ticket and attending, bringing others. As someone once said, "we get the culture we deserve."
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You bring up some excellent and serious thoughts. We need to step up to the plate and make some noise. It makes me think of our presidential voting stats over the recent decades-- only averaging roughly 50% compliance among those who can vote. Yet everyone seems to have an opinion. So, let's not sit back and just let things happen. Let's make some positive noise in support of the classical music industry in the U.S. and for the arts, in general. A society without a healthy fine arts culture is a sad one, indeed.
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