our movement

. . . as seen through rose coloured specs.

It's an INDUSTRY. In which the 'workers', the performers, are being treated shabbily as a direct result of not recognising that but pretending that we're still living in the collecting days of the 19th century or the Revival of the mid 20th.

I draw your attention to #66 by Tom Bliss here on the BBC Message Board which, though not on this subject, impinges upon it.

What I don't comprehend is why some are so keen to defend their outdated corner and refuse to admit how times are so vastly changed, or to recognise that trying to dwell in the past under no longer acceptable conditions damages both artists and the music itself.