Netherlands Broadcasting Music Center (MCO) to be scrapped

The new Dutch cabinet has threatened to close the Muzikcentrum van de Omroep (Netherlands Broadcasting Music Centre), a move that would end four musical ensembles and the library that serves them. After years of performances on world stages, over the radio waves, and online, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the Netherlands Radio Choir, and the Metropole Orchestra could be silenced.

IAML President Roger Flury has written to express the Association’s strong opposition to the proposed closure, as have several IAML national branches and individual members.

Voice your own opinion at http://www.mco.nl/mco_page/actie/eng/