Orchestras look to hold onto its top talent despite hard times.
With the global economy stuck in a rut and everyone's focus is on how to stay afloat it is easy to see how that the term, "the Arts are the first to suffer," can easily worm it's way it sophisticated argument. So frequent, that the term itself is becoming cliché. From an outside point of view and even almost practical angle how could it not. Museums and art galleries are often up against local sports and their stadia and the badly needed youth centers in metropolitan and suburban areas and because of popularity and appeal more often than not the aforementioned are usually cast aside.
Privately own ballet schools find that there is not much wiggle room for error in terms of enticing new recruits to buy into their philosophy, an art form that requires it's fair share of funding. However, it is classical music the most refine of human art forms that truly requires a dollar at every step. Young ballerinas merely require the gestures and posturing of ballet to start their journey in their craft. A musician especially one who takes to the finer arts, will even at the very start, will need finely tuned instruments to even replicate the dullest of classical notes. They need the trained and competent ears to guide them and countless maintenance of their instruments over a period and this is just infant stages of wanting to be a classical musician.
What does a parent do when the child wants to carry on and try to have a crack at being a professional? More advanced schooling is required and usually means a tertiary level education and if the child is a success a platform is needed exhibit skills. Classical music without a doubt is a continuous process from a tender age to seniority and it is not an easy or guaranteed path. With some cities in the United States seeing their orchestras locked in contractual issues or being hacked apart due to the lack or pulling of funding. The omen for someone who wants to be the next Tchaikovsky at least stateside is becoming increasingly difficult.
So can anyone blame a government or local township for not erecting a neo Carnegie Hall, when its citizens are in dire need of better transportation system? Can you guarantee the parent that their child is going to dazzle audiences playing the piccolo in Warsaw with philharmonic? It is hard to say but classical music is at the apex of human achievement alongside the likes science and in trying times as we are in now, it has shown the best we have to offer and every chance to thrive in a modern world.
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