This quote from an article by Anne Midgette in Sunday’s New York Times raised my eyebrows:

Kathryn Gould, a venture capitalist who lives in the Menlo Park area in California, had a different motivation: having heard a lot of new music that she didn’t like, she wanted to help create a repertory that she could enjoy. She plunged into commissioning with a vengeance.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that people with the financial resources to do so want to spend their money commissioning new works. And certainly it’s their decision on who to commission. But to do it simply to try and “clean up” and reform the new music repertory so that they can enjoy it more? That both bothers and scares me.