alt Hacker News> so it doesn't have to stand on its own two feet. So they don't (have to) care about listeners as much.
That's great. A lot is lost when art has to cater to audiences.
> so it doesn't have to stand on its own two feet. So they don't (have to) care about listeners as much.
That's great. A lot is lost when art has to cater to audiences.
Except it runs into an excess problem. As an example, Berlin - just one city - has 7 professional orchestras. They are supported by the government financially to the tune of 200 million EUR per year. There is a very real opportunity cost here and quite a bit of a wealth transfer to old people at the same time (since the audiences for classical music tend to be on the older side).
You could pump a large part of those resources into supporting other kinds of music and arguably the outcome would be more interesting.