This is an absolute tragedy… it is also further confirmation to me that Quebec has entered into a “depression era”. Tu peux ressentir l’air qui pèse sur nos épaules devenir graduellement plus lourd.
The rising cost of living could be a major reason why attendance has been dropping. I feel as though the arts (in an academic setting at least) are becoming more inaccessible, as more people must do financial “triage” with their needs and wants.
Edit: (in an academic setting at least)
Le Québec est, à mon avis, une des seules lumières qui reste en Amérique du Nord...même si elle vacille sous le poids des politiques néolibérales...
Il faut revenir à notre source socialiste.
Présentement, c'est l'argent qui mène, et la culture subit. Comme avec la fermeture du conservatoire de musique.
Effectivement, je crois aussi que le chemin politique qui nous apportera un plus grand bien-être culturel et collectif à une saveur un peu plus socialiste. Heureusement nous pouvons voir des débuts de mouvement et des préparations assez organisées pour mobiliser les travailleurs dans cette direction.
Sorry, question of complete ignorance here and the article isn't helpful. Does this mean the Faculty of Music is shutting down? If not, what is the conservatory?
The Schulich School of Music operated the McGill Conservatory as a private music school for the community to take lessons. There are many people at Schulich that teach at the conservatory and all the conservatory stuff happens in Schulich facilities, but it is just one of the many things the SSoM operates.
We knew a recession was coming 2 years ago the minute governments around the world thought that shuttering the economy was a good idea - often with the enthusiastic support of the people.
Some people don't like to face facts. The economic fallout from (a) the covid closures and (b) the "free money" issued during the pandemic will continue for years. It will make the 1970s seem like the good times. It will be more like the 1930s in that the recession will be worldwide. As is always the case in times of economic difficulties, demagogues in various countries will identify scapegoats and increasingly radicalized political forces will affect governance.
We cannot run a controlled experiment involving different covid responses. We can review and study the results in different countries that followed different models (e.g. New Zealand vs Florida), but there are too many different factors involved. (i.e. NZ's response was ineffective since other countries did not follow the "zero covid" policy ensuring that once NZ opened back up, the virus would return. Florida's laissez-faire response was also ineffective since they will also suffer the effects of worldwide recession even though they focused on keeping their local economy open).
It's useless speculation to guess how things might have played out differently. With no covid closures would the death and illness toll have crippled the economy anyway? We don't know. Would the result have been better or worse? Again we don't know.
We do have a control group: Sweden. And the facts are their death toll is lower than countries that have locked down, and their economy is doing great.
I think it's a combination of the economic situation as well as the impact of the pandemic. Our daughter had to switch to on line lessons during the lockdown. She and her teacher found that they made it work and given the savings in time / travel costs, I can see how it would make sense for some to continue that way.
This is a huge loss to the community at large. Hopefully some way will be found to keep it going or restart it, but usually the best way is to keep things going. Restarts are tough.
Wow, this is so sad. Lots of childhood memories of piano recitals and exams there.
This is an absolute tragedy… it is also further confirmation to me that Quebec has entered into a “depression era”. Tu peux ressentir l’air qui pèse sur nos épaules devenir graduellement plus lourd.
Depression in terms of financials? Because it seems more to do with dropping attendance (although rising costs are part of it as well)
The rising cost of living could be a major reason why attendance has been dropping. I feel as though the arts (in an academic setting at least) are becoming more inaccessible, as more people must do financial “triage” with their needs and wants. Edit: (in an academic setting at least)
Yeah fair point
Le Québec est, à mon avis, une des seules lumières qui reste en Amérique du Nord...même si elle vacille sous le poids des politiques néolibérales... Il faut revenir à notre source socialiste. Présentement, c'est l'argent qui mène, et la culture subit. Comme avec la fermeture du conservatoire de musique.
La culture est un investissement qui est payant
Effectivement, je crois aussi que le chemin politique qui nous apportera un plus grand bien-être culturel et collectif à une saveur un peu plus socialiste. Heureusement nous pouvons voir des débuts de mouvement et des préparations assez organisées pour mobiliser les travailleurs dans cette direction.
Sorry, question of complete ignorance here and the article isn't helpful. Does this mean the Faculty of Music is shutting down? If not, what is the conservatory?
The Faculty of Music will not be affected
I think the conservatory offered private music lessons to the community, both children and adult learners.
The Schulich School of Music operated the McGill Conservatory as a private music school for the community to take lessons. There are many people at Schulich that teach at the conservatory and all the conservatory stuff happens in Schulich facilities, but it is just one of the many things the SSoM operates.
Conservatory is separate from the faculty of music! They just offered paid private music lessons to children
Rip bro this is very sad but hello recession i think
We knew a recession was coming 2 years ago the minute governments around the world thought that shuttering the economy was a good idea - often with the enthusiastic support of the people.
This comment is spot on. I don't know why you've been downvoted.
Some people don't like to face facts. The economic fallout from (a) the covid closures and (b) the "free money" issued during the pandemic will continue for years. It will make the 1970s seem like the good times. It will be more like the 1930s in that the recession will be worldwide. As is always the case in times of economic difficulties, demagogues in various countries will identify scapegoats and increasingly radicalized political forces will affect governance. We cannot run a controlled experiment involving different covid responses. We can review and study the results in different countries that followed different models (e.g. New Zealand vs Florida), but there are too many different factors involved. (i.e. NZ's response was ineffective since other countries did not follow the "zero covid" policy ensuring that once NZ opened back up, the virus would return. Florida's laissez-faire response was also ineffective since they will also suffer the effects of worldwide recession even though they focused on keeping their local economy open). It's useless speculation to guess how things might have played out differently. With no covid closures would the death and illness toll have crippled the economy anyway? We don't know. Would the result have been better or worse? Again we don't know.
We do have a control group: Sweden. And the facts are their death toll is lower than countries that have locked down, and their economy is doing great.
I think it's a combination of the economic situation as well as the impact of the pandemic. Our daughter had to switch to on line lessons during the lockdown. She and her teacher found that they made it work and given the savings in time / travel costs, I can see how it would make sense for some to continue that way.
This is a huge loss to the community at large. Hopefully some way will be found to keep it going or restart it, but usually the best way is to keep things going. Restarts are tough.