On 15 Jan 2007 at 16:11, John Howell wrote: > 1. The arts cost money, unless you are talking about community > music, community theater etc. where everyone volunteers their time and > talents and they do it for enjoyment. I'm involved in three such > organizations in which no one gets paid, a Community Band and > Community String Orchestra that do not charge admission but ask for > donations, and a Community Summer Musical production, which does > charge admission because the expenses are substantial.
You shouldn't assume that even community music organizations are unpade. When I was in high school I played in the Carlinville Municipal Band. It was subsidized by the AFM Music Performance Trust Fund (whose purpose was to promote live music, and which today seems to be called the Music Perfornance Fund), and everyone had to join the union to play in it and everyone got paid. It wasn't much, but we were getting paid. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
