Government funding for opera has outstripped support for brass bands by a factor of seven in recent years, sparking accusations of "snobbishness" and a "southern and metropolitan bias" in arts funding ...

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The stereotype that brass bands are “working class” and only from Yorkshire has been challenged after figures revealed that the Government spent seven times more on opera than brass bands in recent ...

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