In the “evil” days before taxpayer subsidy for the arts at least one Opera company used to go round on a private train – putting on productions all over the country. That soon stopped after the subsidies started (“impossible” to put on different shows within weeks of each other) and soon that Opera company (the Carl Rosa) no longer existed. It is the same with all the arts. We are told that they would not exist without the government subsidies – yet even back in the 1930s (a very depressed period economically) the position of the high arts was vastly BETTER in this country (without taxpayer subsidy) than it is now. Our foes sometimes accuse of us being obsessed with theory and ignoring practical experience. Yet it is they who ignore both “theory” (i.e. moral principle) and history (practical experience). Paul Marks.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:12:44 +0000
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