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Comment on Tartan-ing up the arts by John Symon

11 August 2016

11:27 PM

11 August 2016

11:27 PM

Opera is a very fine thing. However it is not to everybody’s taste. It seems to appeal to a very small number of people in Scotland and, it appears, that those people are mostly in the economic classes that can afford to pay for it. Opera is not going to disappear because we decide to allocate less state funding to it.

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