Unchained melody is city’s loss

Mark SWED has nailed it nicely in his critic’s notebook [“Silence at LACMA Would Be a Sour Note for Everyone,” June 15]. Because of the announced reductions in music programs, I will not be renewing my Los Angeles County Museum of Art membership, and I hope many others will follow suit.

I’d like to urge the Los Angeles Conservancy to take up the cause of preserving the Monday Evening Concerts, a significant cultural force in our city that is certainly as deserving of preservation as the physical landscape that the conservancy works to maintain.

Dottie Grossman

Los Angeles

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LACMA’s decision to cancel the Monday Evening Concerts program after next season and eliminate support for music as part of the museum’s mission reflects the most recent failure of the museum’s departing regime.

A true “conservator” would have placed its “musical collection” in another hall, at another venue with the care and respect accorded to collections of value. But when financial “experts” grab control and apply analysis of insufficient breadth, cultural institutions often succumb to financial strangulation.

Mark Zuckerman

Culver City