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“I do not believe it is yet realised what an important thing has happened. State patronage of the arts has crept in. …. At last the public exchequer has recognised the support and encouragement of the civilising arts of life as part of their duty” said John Maynard Keynes, the first Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, and he continued describing the purpose of the Arts Council: “The purpose of the Arts Council of Great Britain is to create an environment, to breed a spirit, to cultivate an opinion, to offer a stimulus to such purpose that the artist and the public can each sustain and live on the other in that union which has occasionally existed in the past at the great ages of a communal civilised life.”.26
John Maynard Keynes, in a radio broadcast quoted in the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences.1949-1951, at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/5/h5-400e.html
In 1942 Keynes was elevated to the peerage and took his seat in the House of Lords, where he sat on the Liberal benches. Around the same time he became chairman of the newly formed Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts which, before the end of the war, was renamed the British Arts Council. Keynes described the purpose of the Arts Council in a radio broadcast:-
The purpose of the Arts Council of Great Britain is to create an environment, to breed a spirit, to cultivate an opinion, to offer a stimulus to such purpose that the artist and the public can each sustain and live on the other in that union which has occasionally existed in the past at the great ages of a communal civilised life.
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In the early days of the war, when all sources of comfort to our spirits were at a low ebb, there came
into existence, with the aid of the Pilgrim Trust, a body officially styled the'Council for the
Encouragement of Music and the Arts', but commonty known from its initial letters as CEMA It was
the task of CEMA to carry music, drama and pictures to places which otherwise would be cut off
from all contact with the masterpieces of happier days and times : to air-raid shelters, to war-time hos-
tels, to factories, to mining villages. ENSA was charged with the entertainrnent of the Services the
British Council kept contact with other countries overseas the duty of CEMA was to maintain the op-
Portunities of artistic performance for the hardpressed and often exiled civilians.
With experience our ambitions and our scope increased. I should explain that whilst CEMA was
But do not think of the Arts Council as a schoolroaster. Your enjoyment will be our first aim. We
have but little money to spill, and it will be you yourselves who will by your patronage decide in the
long run what you get. In so far as we instruct, it is a new game we are teaching you to play-and to
watch. Our wartime experience has led us already to one clear discovery the unsatisfied demand and the
enormous public for serious and fine entertainment.
This certainly did not exist a few years ago. I do not believe that it is merely a war-time phenomenon. I
fancy that the BBC has played a big part, the predominent part, in creating this public demand, by
bringing to everybody in the country the possibility of learning these new games which only the few
used to play, and by forming new tastes and habits and thus enlarging the desires of the listener and his
capacity for enjoyment. I am told that today when a good symphony concert is broadcast as many as five
million people may listen to it. Their ears become trained. with what anticipation many of them look
forward if a chance comes their way to hear a live orchestra and to experience the enhanced excite-
ment and concentration of attention and emotion, which flows from being one of a great audience all
moved together by the surge and glory of an orchestra in being, beating in on the sensibilities of
every organ of the body and of the apprehensi on.
The result is that half the world is being taught to approach with a livelier appetite the hving perform ef
and the work of the artist as it comes from his own hand and body, with the added subtlety of actual flesh and blood.
“I do not believe it is yet realised what an important thing has happened. State patronage of the arts has crept in. …. At last the public exchequer has recognised the support and encouragement of the civilising arts of life as part of their duty” said John Maynard Keynes, the first Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, and he continued describing the purpose of the Arts Council: “The purpose of the Arts Council of Great Britain is to create an environment, to breed a spirit, to cultivate an opinion, to offer a stimulus to such purpose that the artist and the public can each sustain and live on the other in that union which has occasionally existed in the past at the great ages of a communal civilised life.”.26
John Maynard Keynes, in a radio broadcast quoted in the Report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences.1949-1951, at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/5/h5-400e.html
In 1942 Keynes was elevated to the peerage and took his seat in the House of Lords, where he sat on the Liberal benches. Around the same time he became chairman of the newly formed Committee for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts which, before the end of the war, was renamed the British Arts Council. Keynes described the purpose of the Arts Council in a radio broadcast:-
The purpose of the Arts Council of Great Britain is to create an environment, to breed a spirit, to cultivate an opinion, to offer a stimulus to such purpose that the artist and the public can each sustain and live on the other in that union which has occasionally existed in the past at the great ages of a communal civilised life.
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