--On Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:21 PM -0400 "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Salieri received a lot of government support in his day, forcing Mozart > to scrounge for every pfennig. Yet history has shown how wrong the > government was. Does that make everything alright? I don't think so. Salieri can hardly be blamed for Mozart's financial problems. It is generally known that Mozart was not competent with money. Anyway, the system in place then was that of patronage, a far cry from government support as we think of it today. Mozart did receive a great deal of support from the same kinds of sources as did Salieri. He just didn't know what to do with it. > How many Mozarts are going unsupported today and are all but unkown as > people are foisting off arts projects I think are far less worthy and > getting grants for them? That would seem to be a good argument for more government support rather than less, since it indicate that the popular market isn't supporting them very well either. Government support might allow a few deserving individuals in the arts to make it, where they wouldn't otherwise. It makes sense unless you believe that every single person who applies for and receives a grant is some kind of charlatan, which I know by virtue of acquaintance to some of them is not the case. -Carl Donsbach _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
