As you certainly know, Italian Conservatories are going through a difficult time from every point of view. Instead of discussing real problems for months, intervening with the Ministry and the CNAM to advocate for their causes, working towards improving the educational offering, etc., some directors have worked diligently to achieve this with dozens and dozens of emails and contacts with the relevant ministerial official:
Now, I understand that a program like this provides visibility (one could debate who the target audience is), but debasing a training that one would want to be at university level with a little contest and, listen to this, televoting seems to me truly the last straw in a glass already overflowing with... I dare not say.
What do you think? Are you participating by any chance? I had a very well-prepared student (I'm not joking) on porn movie soundtracks: should I put him on a team?
What can I say, television in general goes hand in hand with the audience and the audience goes hand in hand with television. It is a one-to-one correspondence. If television is therefore the mirror of what Italy appreciates, then perhaps the level is truly very low, not to say underground. As a conservatory institution, I would not have lent myself to advertising (if we want to call it that) of such a low level; instead, I would have thought to exploit television in a different way, producing a beautiful documentary instead. But perhaps, precisely to cater to the altogether far from acute Italian minds, the conservatories lent themselves to this little competition initiative, perhaps to encourage some potential student to undertake a serious career of study and not an 'amateur' one. Anyway, it is known, in the situation that Italian conservatories find themselves in today, but generally all sectors, better such advertising than continuing to remain completely in the dark to die slowly.
I am broadening the topic for anyone who wishes to delve deeper into the current situation, regardless of the television broadcast. This very recent intervention by Prof. Furlanis, president of CNAM, is in my opinion perfect in outlining the status quo of the problems: with all due respect, if the directors, presidents, academic and administrative boards, as well as the nearly 5000 teachers, instead of chasing after housewives and retirees reflected on what Furlanis wrote, perhaps step by step progress would be made in the enhancement of the Italian artistic and musical sector.
