The vast plight of the Proms

We live in a culturally destructive age:

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/august-september-2022/the-vast-plight-of-the-prom...

I thought that the BBC had a duty to educate and inform. As far as Radio 3 programming is concerned, and the dumbed down programming that now prevails in the Proms concerts of recent years, a recipe for disaster has now come to pass. A dumbed down target is an easy target. Then again, if the orchestras were playing instead the music of Berg, Schoenberg, Gerhard, Webern, Lutoslawski et al. they might still face the axe. It seems that we shall never get the answer to that question. Excuses for employing the axe will always be economic ones, and the targeted culture drops out as irrelevant, not pertinant to the argument for retaining it.

The BBC is under attack, however, by a government ideologically opposed to public services of any kind and these days a funding crisis coupled with a culture war is putting the BBC at severe threat.

I agree. There is an excellent article in the i newspaper today by Patrick Cockburn covering much of this ground.

Thanks for the recommendation