When one computes music teachers' salaries, the salary of a director of music (a position not financed in many districts), and the cost of field trips to appropriate festivals, it could total several hundred thousands of dollars per year.
Pleading that it was not economically viable, and that he had all but exhausted the appropriate repertoire, festival director Brian McMaster promised an 'even more exciting' innovation.
The two requiems are altogether appropriate to the festival's demise.
One of the difficulties with this view is that it suggests a nonchalant willingness on the part of the Christian church to appropriate a pagan festival when the early church was so intent on distinguishing itself categorically from pagan beliefs and practices.
This is appropriate given the festival's namesake, Bob Moog, built his reputation on theremins before making his first modular synthesizers back in the '60s.
In the end, two critical details deemed the site appropriate for the festival: the absence of any known burial grounds and the presence of a Grateful Dead concert on the same site in 1986, dubbing the land "previously disturbed".
The reactions to the photo have ranged from disgust to elation and have sparked a debate on whether or not this kind of thing is appropriate at a festival.
It is appropriate that the Aldeburgh festival should premiere Richard Ayres's first opera, for it was at the same festival four years ago that his disconcerting music first made an impact in this country.
It was an appropriate gesture for a festival that highlighted collectives — and cooperation.
That work was the appropriate choice for the festival's grand finale.
