American Boychoir School Closing
  • stulte
    Posts: 355
    Ugh!! Sad...
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,986
    Sad, but the world has changed, unfortunately. The support just isn't there any more.
  • stulte
    Posts: 355
    A way to create a singing culture is needed. Proficiency at "playing the radio" in society at large is the death of singing.
  • This is sad, very sad.
    Events such as this increasingly make me feel, culturally, in a foreign country.
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,515
    Not to cast blame on anyone in particular, but I do wonder why the first time I'm personally hearing of their fundraising efforts is when they've failed.
  • Was there no endowment? What of the income from recordings? No efforts to seek any wealthy patrons and or corporate sponsorships?
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,478
    The school has been in ch.11 bankruptcy for a couple of years, brought on probably by pædophilia in the last century. That is a legacy difficult to shake off.