AHJ, Vol. 7 No. 1, Summer 1979

modern city interesting and attractive to those who live
there. The diversity and richness of the arts help all of us
to enjoy life in metropolitan centers where the arts tend
to cluster and thrive. The performing arts add richness
and meaning to the daily life of the city. Business has a
vital stake in helping to make the great cities of the
world more attractive and livable places and to support
those efforts which cause the cities to retain their vitality
and interest.
There is still another key dimension of the importance
between the arts and business - the freedom of expression
and the triumph of the individual. This relationship
may not at first be so obvious. But the arts represent
probably the greatest single expression of individualism
and free human spirit known to man. The flowering of
that freedom and free expression is important to our
social, political, and spiritual well-being. At the same
time, business activity, at least in America, is still largely
free and largely private. But we see privacy and independence
increasingly threatened by the excessive and
dangerous growth of government at all levels, both here
and abroad. I believe that business has a vital stake in
remaining as free as possible and that the performing
arts share a similar goal. Hence the mutual support by
business to relate to other forms of expression and
creative activity that similarly value and require
freedom seems to provide a natural and healthy
alliance. The effective performance and conduct of
business in a free society is vital to the political,
economic, and material well-being of us all. Similarly, a
free environment for the performance and creation of
artistic expression is crucial.
Finally, there is another interesting and perhaps
ironic relationship between business and the arts. In the
long run it is probably true that many highly successful
business "performers" will become and remain better
known and more famous for their support of cultural
and artistic institutions than for their prowess and success
in business. How many people know very much
about the careers of Carnegie, Corcoran, Frick,
Hirschhorn, Guggenheim and Mellon? Probably many
more people are aware of these names because of their
great support and patronage of the arts than for the particular
character of their professional activities. Thus at
the individual level, where many would like to leave
their own imprint on society, however small and modest
it may be, the partnership between the arts and business
provides for the successful business executive one of the
best means of leaving an enduring footprint on the long
pathway of human development and progress.
Statement of Policy
The American Harp Society, Inc., condemns the unauthorized
reproduction of published harp music. Not
only is it illegal but it discourages the publication of
harp music so vital to harpists.
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THE SALZEDO SCHOOL
A Non-Profit Institution
ALICE CHALIFOUX, Director
JEANNE CHALIFOUX, Assistant
For Information Address:
ALICE CHALIFOUX, 115 South Lane, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022
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