Every morning when I read one.
"Clash over music lessons, classes roils Longy’s campus" by Geoff Edgers | Globe Staff, March 19, 2013
The Longy School of Music of Bard College’s move, announced via e-mail March 6 and effective at the end of August, has sent controversy tearing through Boston’s music community.
Parents and teachers have picketed each of the last two Saturday mornings on Longy’s campus, an online petition has gathered more than 1,000 signatures, and the faculty union has complained to the Cambridge City Council....
At the heart of the dispute are differing visions for the nearly 100-year-old institution: Is the school’s primary role to offer music programs for the general public, through its preparatory and continuing education programs? Or, as argued by Longy’s board, should the school’s focus be on its full-time conservatory students?
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"New York has the Governors Ball. Chicago has Lollapalooza. New Orleans has Jazz Fest. And now, if all goes according to plan, Boston will have a signature music festival to call its own....
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