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[lemit]

Your story would work here. (Even losing funding to football wouldn't need translation.) I wish you all the luck in the world.

You make me wonder what my city is like now. When we moved here, it was a small town known as the birthplace of the "Stars Of Tomorrow" competition and one of the smallest towns in the world to have a symphony orchestra. It has now grown tenfold. I have no idea what the musical community is like now. A few years ago, there were an unusually large number of pipe organs here, but I haven't heard any superlatives recently.

I'm not really musical either. My most prominent performances were as a page turner for a friend who accompanied seemingly everybody. Now, I don't listen to music either. But I think there is something about the pattern recognition that follows you through life if you are exposed to music, something that allows you to organize your thoughts (as the autistic people in the PBS video do).

I think that like art, it has value beyond language's ability to describe or even comprehend, something that completes us as human beings.

Good luck.

--lemit