Leon Botstein: The rich don’t give a damn
OrchestrasIn the latest edition of David Krauss’s Speaking Soundly, the conductor and Bard College president discusses his frustrations at the classical music scene in America. The fault does not belong to musical organisation, he argues. It’s the super-rich – he names Elon Musk – who show no responsibility for maintaining cultural infrastructures.
‘Where are they now?’ he demands.
Botstein relates being sent to squeeze money from a rabid ex-Nazi. His grandfather, a camp survivor, encouraged him to do so.
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