The Council and Senate of the Weimar University of Music decided last night to close the Institute for Early Music. It’s not just Oxford and Cambridge that have devalued music studies.
Weimar is reallocating its priorities to pedagogy, teacher training and cultural management.
Goethe, Schiller, any thoughts?
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