[kashunstva]

Now do classical music.

My daughter graduates from HS this year and is beginning a performance degree program at a well-known US conservatory. There’s no way to acquire the requisite musical skills, contacts etc. but by spending prodigious sums of money. You are competing against kids whose parents spared no expense for upwards of 14-15 years.

I suppose it’s not much different than non-music disciplines; but for art in particular, it seems that something essential is at stake in the way that those who succeed/survive have unrepresentative backgrounds.