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Dateline: 13th June, 2004 Yet Again Second Best for Scotland, Accuses Ex-Minister The treatment of Scottish Opera by the Executive is "an attack on excellence" which means that Scotland has to accept "second best again", writes former (1999 - 2001) culture minister Sam Galbraith in Scotland on Sunday today. He claims the reason for the company's financial troubles is that it has always been under-funded: "It is suffering from its own success. Now it is being told to drop its standards, and to drop out of the international league. Why?" Part of the reason, he thinks, is that "the arts portfolio is an afterthought given to the most compliant minister. Funding is never considered until the end of the spending round when all the money is allocated. There is then a scrabble to pull together some funds to keep the arts lobby happy." Earlier in the week the company's artistic director Sir Richard Armstrong said that the curbacks could destroy the company and James MacMillan, Scotland's leading composer, accused the head of the Culture Commission James Boyle and said he "will go down in history as the arts chief under whose leadership a world-class company was effectively destroyed. If he felt a modicum of responsibility for this disaster his resignation from the Cultural Commission would be on the First Minister’s desk on Monday morning." << 88
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