They've a long way to go to get back to how it was 40 years ago. I very much doubt if the people who make the decsisions will bother - thefre's no money in people making music for themselves.

Backmin 1965 they made a TV film called The PIED PIPERS OF HARLOW about music making in our town:

Library Synopsis

Music-making of all kinds in schools, orchestral and string groups, bands, by singers, choirs and individuals and the contribution it has made to the development of the community in Harlow New Town. This film was first shown on BBC Television in 1965
NFA Catalogue

DOCUMENTARY. The contribution of amateur and professional musicians to the cultural life of Harlow new town, including architect and flautist Eric Jones, beat group the Naturals, string quartet the Alberni Quartet (Bernard Simmonds, Howard Day, John White, Gregory Barron), the First Avenue Jazz Quartet, George Atkinson, and the Nettleswell singers. Rehearsals are shown from a school production of the ballet 'Coppelia', plus music from amateur and youth orchestras and a brass band.

That's from the British Film Institute online Film and TV Database. Of couirse they haven't got a copy, and I very much doubt if the BBC has either . If they tried to make a film like that today they'd have precious little to put in it.

It's sad. It's like a bulldozer moved in and pushed so mnay good things out of the way.