Composers Must Eat
That composers have to live on a budget, and without the protection of Petrillo, is a thought which never occurs to us as we listen to the latest composition of Walter Piston, Aaron Copland, or Roy Harris. HUNTINGTON CAIRNS, who has been Secretary-Treasurer and General Counsel of the National Gallery of Art since 1943, reminds us of the princely patronage which supported Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Wagner. He tells us of the miserly sums now paid to ranking composers and asks what relief can be expected from Federal aid. His article will be published by the Harvard University Press in a collection entitled Music and Criticism: A Symposium.