Re: Re: Re: Bad News


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Posted by Chuck(G) on October 16, 2001 at 11:24:26:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Bad News posted by Scott on October 16, 2001 at 11:11:18:

California proposition 13, for those who are unfamiliar with it, was a "cut and cap" on property taxes. In California, this is the primary source of funding for schools (no matter what the lottery people told the electorate to get their bill passed). Some of first budget-cutting was in arts and music. So, music was cut in the 1970's; now you have a bunch of adults who are now in the prime of their financial and discretionary spending powers who don't give a damn about real music because no one ever taught them about it.

...and since they don't know Bach from Beetlejuice, neither will their children learn from them--or at school.

As a professional musician and educator friend of mine once said "We don't need more professional musicians--we need more amateurs who love music".

What goes around comes around.


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