The Scottish Arts Council (CBE ) Mr N

The Scottish Arts Council (CBE ) Mr N

Pt(Z C vk 1 --l6 coPy The Arts Council of Great Britai n A new charter Twenty second annual report and account s The Arts Council of Great Britai n 4 St James's Square London SW 1 year ended 31 March 1967 01-930 973 7 ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRIT IN REFERENCE ONLY 00 NOT REMOVE FROM THE LIBRARY Membership of th e Council, committees and panels Counci l The Lord Goodman (Chairman ) Professor Sir William Coldstream, CBE, DLitt (Vice-Chairman ) The Right Hon. Sir Edward Boyle, Bt, M P Colonel William Crawshay, DSO, ER D Miss Constance Cumming s C. Day Lewis, CBE, DLit t The Earl of Harewood Professor Gwyn Jones, CB E Sir Joseph Lockwoo d Colin H . Mackenzie, CMG Mrs Myfanwy Pipe r Dame Jean Roberts, DBE, DL, J P Professor D. Talbot Rice, MBE, TD, DLitt, FS A Hugh Willatt Angus Wilson, FRS L Sir John Witt Scottish Arts Counci l Colin H . Mackenzie, CMG (Chairman ) Ian Finlay, CBE (Vice-Chairman ) J. S . Boyl e Colin Chandle r J. B. Dalby Cedric Thorpe Davie, OB E R . D . Hunter, MB E Dr J. A . MacLea n Miss Lennox Milne, OB E Edwin Morga n Neil Paterso n Alan Reiach, OB E Professor D Talbot Rice, MBE, TD, DLitt, FS A Dame Jean Roberts, DBE, DL, J P George Singleton, CB E Professor Andrew McLaren Young Dr Douglas Youn g Welsh Arts Counci l Professor Gwyn Jones, CBE (Chairman ) Colonel William Crawshay, DSO, ERD (Vice-Chairman ) Professor W . J . G. Beynon, CBE, PhD, DSc G. G. Evans Alfred Francis, OB E Alex J . Gordon, OBE, DipArch, FRIB A lorwerth Howell s Dr Glyn Tegai Hughe s David Dilwyn John, CBE, TD, DSc, FM A Kenneth Lovelan d Professor T . J . Morgan, DLit t Gareth Thoma s Miss D . E. Ward Councillor Tudur WatKin s Professor J . R. Webster, Ph D Clifford Will iams Art pane l Sir John Witt (Chairman ) Professor Sir William Coldstream, CBE, DLitt (Deputy Chairman ) Ronald Alle y Professor Quentin Bel l Alan Bowness 'Ian W. Bruc e Robyn Denny Basil Gray, CBE Peter Green ha m Adrian Heat h Carol Hogbe n F . E. McWilliam, CB E Professor Bernard Meadows, ARC A Sir Roland Penrose, CB E John Pope-Hennessy, CB E Norman Reid The Earl of Rosse, M B E Sir Robert Sainsbury, ACA Hugh Scrutton, CB E Professor Alastair Smart, D A Mrs K . L . Somerville, OB E Adrian D . Stoke s David Sylveste r Joe Tilso n Francis Watson, CVO, FS A 'Derrick Woodha m 'Junior membe r Drama pane l Hugh Willatt (Chairman ) Miss Constance Cummings (Deputy Chairman ) Michael Barry, OB E 'Miss Susan Burdel l Stuart Burg e Miss Nancy Burma n John Bur y Andrew Cruickshan k Patrick Donnel l Miss Jane Edgeworth, MB E Michael Elliott Martin Essli n Robin Fox, M C Miss Margaret Harri s Miss Jocelyn Herbert Miss Barbara Jefford, CB E J. W . Lamber t Leo McKern Dr A . H . Marshall, CB E John Mortimer, Q C 'Andrew Murra y Anthony Page Harold Pinter, CB E T . Osborne Robinso n James Saunder s Miss Elizabeth Sweating, MB E Antony Tuckey Kenneth Tyna n 'Junior member 4 Literature panel C . Day Lewis, CBE, DLitt (Chairman ) Angus Wilson, FRSL (Deputy Chairman ) Miss Patricia Bee r Victor Bonham-Carte r Miss Brigid Brophy Leonard Clark, OBE, HM I R. G. Davis-Poynte r Patrick Garland Giles Gordo n Ted Hughes Professor Frank Kermod e Derwent May Julian Mitchel l Ian Parson s Peter Porter V. S . Pritchett 'C . Ben Ridler William Sanso m Jon Stallworth y Miss C. V. Wedgwood, CB E 'Junior membe r Music panel The Earl of Harewood (Chairman ) The Right Hon . Sir Edward Boyle, Bt, M P (Deputy Chairman ) Dr Gerald Abraha m Madame Irina Baronov a Anthony Besc h Geoffrey Bush, DMus Joseph Coope r Frederic R . Cox, OB E Professor Thurston Dart Meredith Davie s Dame Ninettede Valois, DB E 'John Drummon d Geraint Evans, CB E Alan Fran k Douglas Gues t Barrie Iliffe Professor Ivor Keys, DMu s Keith Leste r Gerald Moore, CB E Miss Thea Musgrave 'David Pipe r William Pleet h Andrew Porte r Peter William s `Junior member Young people 's theatre panel Miss Constance Cummings (Chairman ) Hugh Willatt (Deputy Chairman ) John Alle n John Blatchle y Stuart Burg e 'Miss Susanna Capo n Mrs Nettie de Montmorency R. Gargrav e Colin Georg e 'Andrew Gibso n Geoffrey Hodso n Ronald James Miss Caryl Jenne r David E . Kem p D . M . Kirkma n J. D . R . McVi e Miss Joan Plowright Owen Ree d James Saunders Clifford William s 'Junior member Staff Headquarter s 4 St James's Square London SW 1 01-9309737 Secretary-General : Nigel J . Abercrombi e Deputy Secretaryand Finance Officer : M . J . McRobert, CBE, FCA Art Director: Gabriel White, CB E Deputy Art Director: Robin Campbell, DS O Drama Director: J. L . Hodgkinson, OB E Deputy Drama Director: N. V. Linklater, OB E Music Director : John Cruft Deputy Music Director: Eric Thompso n Assistant Secretaryand Literature Director : Eric W . White, CB E Assistant Literature Director : Charles Osborn e Accountant : Anthony Field, FC A Assistant Accountant: Alan P . Ritchie, ACA Scotland 11 Rothesay Terrace Edinburgh 3 031-225 276 9 Director: Ronald Mavo r Deputy Director : Donald Mathe r Wales Holst Hous e Museum Plac e Cardiff Art and General : 0222-3272 2 Music : 0222-43055 Director: Aneurin M . Thomas 7 Contents page 9 Introductio n 11 A new charter 16 On the margi n 18 Housing the art s 22 Theatre f or you ng peopl e 25 Report on the needs of the subsidized theatre in Londo n 28 Changes in the musical scen e 30 Poetry in the makin g 33 Scotlan d 41 Wales Appendices 49 A The new charte r 53 B List of art exhibition s 57 C List of poetry manuscripts acquisition s 60 Accountant's notes 62 Annual accounts The cover and dividing pages are image s prepared forthe report by Gordon House i /AI ma as A chairman's note Although the Arts Council is now a well-established institution, its policy and working methods are by no means fully evolved . The additional resources-given to us by a Government anxious to stimulate and develop the work we do-have emphasized th e problems and difficulties that confront us. The major problem is to define our scope . We remain and always will remain an auxiliary body. Artistic activity would,. happily, continue without us, and the contribution we ca n make to promoting artistic output will always be arguable . On this score we take a modest view. We have no evidence that poets, authors, painters or composers-or any creativ e workers-are the more fertile because we exist and give them our support . It would b e complacent to entertain such beliefs. But that does not detract from the relevance of a body with a function to improve the working conditions of artists and to preserve and enlarge thei r public. For it is this latter function that constitutes our major activity, and the highest service that w e can render to the artist. And it is to this objective that the bulk of our resources and energie s have been and will continue to be devoted . There are few thinking people to whom the need for artistic subsidy would have to b e justified today. It is not a matter of choice. I n some ways, it might be preferable to live in a society where the measure of private support for our activities obviated the need for Stat e assistance. But such a society has totally ceased to exist . The fiscal policies of every Government in our memory have contributed to a situation where private bounty o r investment is now totally inadequate to sustain a civilized ration of music and theatre, o f poetry and picture . Nor need we be remotely apologetic in asking for the modest sums w e need for our purposes from the public purse . The Government has garnered in much, if no t most, of the wealth that cultured patricians and public-spirited industrialists could formerl y bestow. It holds a portion of its treasury charged with a trust to use it for our purposes-and, in fairness, the growth of the Arts Council in scope and importance demonstrate s governmental recognition of this principle . We have, we believe, started to evolve a firm policy-and the pages of this report furnish some guide to it. But it must be protean . We do not exist to plan artistic and cultural projects . Very few are the fruit of direct Arts Council labours . And this is as it should be. The larger th e extent of national subsidy, the more vital that it should neither bear norseem to bear the imprint of a single body. Artistic life in this country must not be dominated by a small , non-elected appointed caucus in St James's Square . The avoidance even of th e possibility of such domination is a conscious plank of our policy . Thus we encourage loca l plans and promotions; thus we encourage the development of a sensible regionalism-no t the 'fragmentation' of established important institutions or the notion that every town mus t have an opera house, but the support of the thesis that in a great and closely populate d country it is an absurdity that every major artistic institution should be crowded into the metropolis. We recognize with humility the magnitude of our problems .

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