Never mind the latest instalment of pointless ramblings at Stormont where our neanderthal politicians will spend the next month in their tribal gear knocking ten shades out of each other and getting nowhere.
Stand up for the Ulster Orchestra
Meanwhile, in the real world the same politicians – that approximately half of us vote for – are systematically turning the places we live into joyless places where any experience that might actually enrich our lives is cast aside because the return on investment doesn’t add up.
What price the joy of a child learning to play a new musical instrument?
What price the joy of discovering that music is mind and mood altering? It can bring joy from the depths of despair, it creates memories that will never be forgotten.
What price the release that music gives you after another day on the treadmill?
You may not listen to classical music but this still affects you – they’re coming for whatever you get your joy from and they’re dismantling it.
It can’t be allowed to happen. It’s not even the Ulster Orchestra we’re standing up for. We’re standing up for our desire to live somewhere that is actually a nice place to be, where people want to come and visit, where enjoyment is around every corner.
Hands off the Orchestra. Hands off our music.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2014/oct/14/the-ulster-orchestra-funding-cuts-crisis
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