tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-2684776977208537632008-02-05T14:40:00.000Z2008-02-05T14:40:00.000Z2008-02-05T14:40:00.000ZThe arts have always depended on patrons, including, more recently, government. Your ticket at the concert hall (increasingly overpriced) doesn't pay for the orchestra, only the trappings.<BR/><BR/>The commercial possibilities for recordings of serious music seem to be narrowing fatally. The incentive to record may eventually have to depend upon some kind of patronage, rather than sales.<BR/><BR/>I'd far rather my tax dollars assisted in such efforts than in building more weapons.jerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11655962442657373230noreply@blogger.com