Right Now, Bankers Don’t Deserve To Be Music Sponsors

“The spectacle of those four unrepentant arch-capitalists in front of the Treasury Select Committee yesterday was one of the most extraordinary displays of complacency and denial you will ever see. … How can the art made at festivals sponsored by these bankrupt individuals and companies do the job that classical music should do, and have a necessary, critical voice in contemporary culture, if it continues to be supported by the dead hand of big banking?”