The lie of “we serve the community” isn’t the most atrocious modern untruth of the classical orchestral industry.
Here Lies the Orchestra, Part 2
“If you think education is expensive…”
Until education is viewed as the acquisition of multiple literacies for life-long learning rather than the timely regurgitation of factoids for standardized testing, music can’t compete in the educational sphere
The Morality of “Paid to Play”
We should pay children to read great literature. It has manifest educational and social benefits. It’s not a foreign idea to be immediately despised; it was hatched in America. It’s not socialist or morally objectionable; it’s just early exposure to capitalism in that it concretely rewards effort.
Jonathan Andrew Govias 