Posts by Paul Litterick
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George, orchestral and concert music is not one genre. You are talking of centuries of music production and of music which still is being written today.
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Sacha, I would hang out with the blue-rinsers a lot more often, but the subsidies are not enough for me to afford it. A lot of other musical forms receive public funding as well: a fair amount of creative electronica/indie musicians gets help from Creative New Zealand.
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Commercial sponsorship of Concert will have two results:
1) The schedule will be lightened, because the sponsors want large audiences and don't like difficult music;
2) other areas of the arts will lose funding, because there is only so much sponsorship money going around.
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Oh, that Julia; of course, sex, betrayal, rats, I get it now. And I agree. This very thread shows it. Rather than think of Concert as part of our common wealth, folks round here are saying it is just subsidised entertainment for rich white folks. Funnily enough, that is what they say around the Business Round Table.
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Who you calling Julia? Why do I not get this analogy?
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I'd be happy to see money redirected to support music about and of this place, not by long-dead white Europeans whose local audience are amongst our most wealthy - and the most accustomed to subsidy it seems.
That is quite a bundle of prejudices you have there. Being dead, white and European are not bad things in themselves. You are speaking of some of the greatest artists this civilisation has produced. Your claim about their audience being among our most wealthy is groundless.
There is a great danger our our culture becoming parochial and ephemeral: where only local contemporary artists are valued, and where everything has to represent notions of indigeneity or nationhood. Having a radio station which represents a broader view of culture is important.
Besides, many listeners cannot afford the tickets or make the journeys to concerts in distant cities.
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Since there will be a logo...
Stop right there. We are not obliged to have a logo. We could become the world's first No Logo supercity.
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Word.
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Piss off Stephen. If I had meant that comment as Emma interpreted it, I would have stood by it. I really do not appreciate you impugning my integrity.
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Emma, I was not accusing you of anything or attributing any thought to you. I was making a passing comment on a common attitude.