Danes cancel concerts for lack of cash
OrchestrasThe Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen has cancelled concerts for the rest of 2024 in ‘a final attempt to secure the ensemble’s survival’.
Founded in 1990, Athelas has been a beacon of contemporary music, Danish and international.
The Danish government has reduced 2024-27 arts budgets and the ensemble has been refused a special grant to see it through.
Has ACE Dementia Syndrome crossed the North Sea?
The Danish with their calvinist world view have never accepted the fact that arts and culture form an integral part of society.
So, even when the DK taxman is hauling in mega-bucks with the success of Ozempic, and they have more money available than ever before, they still pretend they have no money for the arts.
Typical small minded calvinst approach where anything pleasurable is seen as the devil’s work…
The majority of religious Danes are Lutheran, which sees a more benign God than the sterner Calvinism.
The Danes also set a lot of store by “hygge,” which would seem to contradict your final assertion.
Arts funding in Denmark is quite generous but they, like most countries in recent years, have had to tighten their belts. The Athelas Sinfonietta would appear to be one of the victims. But I do not detect a malign hostility to the arts in the problems of this group.
I’m not danach but.. really everyone knows – Denmark is not a poor country and additionally even homebase of Novo Nordisk! Really shameful