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asked to pay £2.50 for audiences up to 50, £5 for 100 and £10 for larger audiences, in order to cover administrative expenses. 'As the numbers grow, we will have to adjust to· new levels of organisation which will entail branch offices. There will be, and there are, certain places that cannot afford even £25. And £25 may not be sufficient that's just for the artist. You may need to get a piano; you may need to ask someone to clean the place; you may need to print a programme; you may want to tune a piano; you may need music stands, or chairs, or drinks, or I don't know what. So it's I
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more likely to be £60 or £70 if it's only one person - and possibly £100 if it's two. We would like to make a little contribution to enable the concert to take place - and we could do this through a Capital Fund.' One thing that makes it all possible, where it wouldn't have been 20 years ago, is the computer. 'We live in an age of tremendous numbers, and by the time you have, let's say, 2,000 artists, their repertoire, their preferences, their age, their sex, the time when they are free to go, where they like to play ... and then, on the other hand, the clients, the distances between them,
the size of the hall- well, that cannot be done by one person, or even 10. There are 53,000 schools, and then hospitals, factories, prisons, and all the rest. You can imagine what the variables between them all may be in five years. 250,000 possible concerts? You see, there are thousands of possibilities ... '
If you would like to help or to know more about 'Live Music Now', please write to Yehudi Menuhin, Live Music Now, 38 Wigmore Street, London W1H 9DF or telephone 01-4867333.
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