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Who saves us by the Honourable Antinoro? Closing the concert season
Open letter from the artistic director of Jazz Catania
Dear friends, we invite you to support, as you can, the battle music series that all associations are conducting these days against the crazy plan of the Regional Antinoro, which would logically death of musical activities on the island.
You should know that all the music associations in Sicily living under a 1985 law, which when it was launched, was taken as an example and touchstone throughout Italy because, despite some limitations, governed objectively access to musical contributions, reducing to a minimum the discretionary power of the councilor turn.
Catania Jazz has benefited from this law since 1987 and until 2007 this was the only contribution that has supported our economic activity (in the current year the Ministry has approved a grant of € 12,000.00) . Keep in mind that we are talking about small numbers, at least for us, over the last decade are in a gap between 53/75.000, 00 €, ie between 20 and 30% of our budget, straight to big, from the time our birth by the collection of Sicilian public.
This was during the years of our harshest critics, not so much the law but its implementation, which has been increasingly penalized (we will explain the reasons) that was immediately and is still the JAZZ ASSOCIATION WITH THE MOST 'HIGH AVERAGE IN ITALY paying public and with the exception of the summer festivals, probably one of the top 5 in Europe. Nevertheless
understand well that one contribution that is fatal for us, helping us not just to balance our accounts, but to reduce our losses. Can you imagine what happens to all those associations in Sicily, active for decades, which can not rely on our collections, while providing a service of high artistic quality, especially in the field of classical music.
more so then if the removal or drastic reduction of the contribution is submitted in December 2008, ie at the end of the year when everyone has already spent the money for their activities, relying on the fact that in 22 years of application law, changes to each have always been marginal.
Mind you, we are not faced with a reduction of funds means the amounts available for the concert organizations are exactly the same as in 2007, even in theory because there was greater availability had decreased associations financed.
Assessor Antinoro, before he decided to wipe out all the musical associations (especially of Catania in eastern Sicily), who point-blank at the end of the year, they learned that their contribution for 2008 was zero, then, overwhelmed by protests, even its leaders, has changed its strategy and has invented a strange criterion to achieve the same goal.
of a sudden our councilor Cuffaro has become communist, and he thought that all should take the same money, putting on a par with the association 80 years of life and the final status of friends and relatives, so it 's Equality is reached in the lower course, even to the comic situations that musical associations with little or no security that have not seen very rewarding just because they were limited to just ask at the instance.
But beyond, the grotesque aspects of the story, it is clear that Antinoro is not only driven by the desire to encourage those few associations askaris Palermo (but there are also Catania), why not lacking imagination and look decision-making gifts to his constituents music Palermo. No, the problem is that mister 30,000 preferences, is uncomfortable with a law that lends little to the political patronage, to please, the invasion policy. The mere fact that there is a budget chapter of the Sicilian Region € 2,300,000 with which he sees pass before his eyes, without being able to do what he wants, we think the send on a rampage.
Hence the idea: to make the law die. If you die pairings, there will be no need for a law for the musical associations (Watson Elementary, one might say) and then that money could be moved to other chapters, perhaps directly on the initiatives promoted, you call out the music initiatives adopted and funded directly to the Councillor on duty, so now also Antinoro. What are they, as you well know, because we are sure that in all these years have left their mark among the public about the high value of the Sicilian, if not musical, financial.
is why today all the groups take to the fight and I hope you all understand that game is much more than the musical activities in Sicily, which is already so much: there is question the very idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy, the relationship between politics and society, the idea that Antinori (and not just him) is that politics should get their hands on everything.
we invite you to send your support of Blog Honourable Antinoro Who saves us?
http://www.ame.ct.it/blog/
together with those already received prestigious (Andrea Camilleri, Ennio Morricone, Nicola Piovani, Stefano Bollani, Ludovico Einaudi, Giovanni Sollima and many many others.)
Thank you for your support.
Pompeo Benincasa 
not to turn off the music in Sicily!
Open letter from the artistic director of Jazz Catania
Dear friends, we invite you to support, as you can, the battle music series that all associations are conducting these days against the crazy plan of the Regional Antinoro, which would logically death of musical activities on the island.
You should know that all the music associations in Sicily living under a 1985 law, which when it was launched, was taken as an example and touchstone throughout Italy because, despite some limitations, governed objectively access to musical contributions, reducing to a minimum the discretionary power of the councilor turn.
Catania Jazz has benefited from this law since 1987 and until 2007 this was the only contribution that has supported our economic activity (in the current year the Ministry has approved a grant of € 12,000.00) . Keep in mind that we are talking about small numbers, at least for us, over the last decade are in a gap between 53/75.000, 00 €, ie between 20 and 30% of our budget, straight to big, from the time our birth by the collection of Sicilian public.
This was during the years of our harshest critics, not so much the law but its implementation, which has been increasingly penalized (we will explain the reasons) that was immediately and is still the JAZZ ASSOCIATION WITH THE MOST 'HIGH AVERAGE IN ITALY paying public and with the exception of the summer festivals, probably one of the top 5 in Europe. Nevertheless
understand well that one contribution that is fatal for us, helping us not just to balance our accounts, but to reduce our losses. Can you imagine what happens to all those associations in Sicily, active for decades, which can not rely on our collections, while providing a service of high artistic quality, especially in the field of classical music.
more so then if the removal or drastic reduction of the contribution is submitted in December 2008, ie at the end of the year when everyone has already spent the money for their activities, relying on the fact that in 22 years of application law, changes to each have always been marginal.
Mind you, we are not faced with a reduction of funds means the amounts available for the concert organizations are exactly the same as in 2007, even in theory because there was greater availability had decreased associations financed.
Assessor Antinoro, before he decided to wipe out all the musical associations (especially of Catania in eastern Sicily), who point-blank at the end of the year, they learned that their contribution for 2008 was zero, then, overwhelmed by protests, even its leaders, has changed its strategy and has invented a strange criterion to achieve the same goal.
of a sudden our councilor Cuffaro has become communist, and he thought that all should take the same money, putting on a par with the association 80 years of life and the final status of friends and relatives, so it 's Equality is reached in the lower course, even to the comic situations that musical associations with little or no security that have not seen very rewarding just because they were limited to just ask at the instance.
But beyond, the grotesque aspects of the story, it is clear that Antinoro is not only driven by the desire to encourage those few associations askaris Palermo (but there are also Catania), why not lacking imagination and look decision-making gifts to his constituents music Palermo. No, the problem is that mister 30,000 preferences, is uncomfortable with a law that lends little to the political patronage, to please, the invasion policy. The mere fact that there is a budget chapter of the Sicilian Region € 2,300,000 with which he sees pass before his eyes, without being able to do what he wants, we think the send on a rampage.
Hence the idea: to make the law die. If you die pairings, there will be no need for a law for the musical associations (Watson Elementary, one might say) and then that money could be moved to other chapters, perhaps directly on the initiatives promoted, you call out the music initiatives adopted and funded directly to the Councillor on duty, so now also Antinoro. What are they, as you well know, because we are sure that in all these years have left their mark among the public about the high value of the Sicilian, if not musical, financial.
is why today all the groups take to the fight and I hope you all understand that game is much more than the musical activities in Sicily, which is already so much: there is question the very idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy, the relationship between politics and society, the idea that Antinori (and not just him) is that politics should get their hands on everything.
we invite you to send your support of Blog Honourable Antinoro Who saves us?
http://www.ame.ct.it/blog/
together with those already received prestigious (Andrea Camilleri, Ennio Morricone, Nicola Piovani, Stefano Bollani, Ludovico Einaudi, Giovanni Sollima and many many others.)
Thank you for your support.
Pompeo Benincasa
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