Lack of Funding for The Arts Classical music has always had the ability to impact human lives. Whether it’s a child listening to soft classical music to improve brain development, a group of people watching an intense scene of a film which has Verdi’s Requiem II Dies irae blaring through the speakers, or even a teenager listening to his favorite heavy metal band which originated its sound based off Bach, Beethoven, or Vivaldi’s multiple pieces which had deep dissonant chords. Music has had an impact on art, music, people, poetry, movies, plays, dances, architecture, militaries and even weddings. The impact and the influence that this core genre of music has on society does not match the funding that it deserves in today’s population. The government and the people of the western hemisphere …show more content…
The lack of funding has drastically decreased the ability for musicians to make a living and to perform the music the world has known for hundreds of years. The public should donate and fund the arts, specifically concert halls, such as the Nashville Symphony, and local classical music programs in order to rejuvenate the love for classical music and supply proper funding to musicians. The New York Philharmonic was established only seventy years after America was founded. This is the oldest Symphony in America and is still active. This indicates that the Symphony has been performing classical music in America for close to 200 years. Those numbers of years have been through many wars, tragedies, revolutions, and generations of Americans which relied on the Symphony to produce music. During wars it was a composer’s job to produce music that would adequately rally troops fighting and music to calm the civilians in America which worried about their loved ones. All of America’s military branches have classical music as their