Klarinet Archive - Posting 000674.txt from 1999/09

From: "clarinet" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Orchestra Funding, a paradox
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:21:10 -0400

Mark Charette wrote:

>I don't remember reading about Da Vinci or Michaelangelo starving
(although
>they had some serious religious constraints put on their art - but what
the
>heck, religion was paying the bills!) and I remember many years back
reading
>a biography of Cellini (a master goldsmith whose work was/is highly
>regarded) who was, to put it mildly, a rascal. He probably anchored one
end
>of the bell curve :^)

Two comments -

1. As to "religion was paying the bills", it was most likely with money
extracted from folks who could ill afford to part with it. The problem of
how to (or who should) fund the arts continues!

2. As to whether Cellini, "anchored one end of the bell curve", I would
guess that Mark is making the same point I have with the statement that
creative people are, by definition, not average.

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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