Monthly Archives: March 2018

“Opera is many things to me. Elitist is not one of them” – please debate

March 24, 2018 – 4:31 PM

In the Guardian on the 21st March 2018 there was an article, “Opera is many things to me. Elitist is not one of them”. Opera is not elitest as music it is the inequality of funding that sets it apart and one could argue that it is conspicuous consuption writ large with two opera houses […]

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Equality for female and male composers promotes quality in the arts?

March 24, 2018 – 4:25 PM

There was a leader article in the Guardian on the 8th March 2018,  “Equality for female and male composers promotes quality in the arts”. Whilst gratifying to read it was regrettable that the article was only concerned with classical music; the problem is a lot deeper than public performance. For example the Huddersfield Contempary Music […]

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