Author: Weiss, R.

Publication Year: 1975

Media Type: Book

Summary:

Abstract:

Although state support for the performing arts has risen at the very rapid rate of 15% per year compounded over the past 20 years in Britain, recent discussion has exposed many grounds of discontent. The London orchestras have loudly complained that support is inadequate to provide performance at the level of the best orchestras internationally. Others have argued that public support of the performance of new (British) compositions is inadequate. Still others have argued that public support inadequately allocates performance to the provinces and outside the large urban centres, and to the cultivation of new listeners among the young and the working classes. These protests all point to the need for criteria for determining the social benefit of alternative directions and amounts of expenditure. The Arts Council has been challenged to develop more objective criteria, partly to make explicit the goals it is pursuing and partly to enable it to tell how well they are being approached. (p. 260-271)

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Categories: International