A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
4.3 billion Ft for orchestras and ensembles — funded whether the halls are full or empty.
A central operating grant to music-arts organisations funds ensembles regardless of subscription, ticket, or sponsorship revenue — removing the signal that would tell the allocator, and the organisations themselves, what the audience actually values.
About 1,070 Ft per taxpayer per year — 4.3 billion Ft total — funds orchestras and ensembles whose fixed costs the central grant covers independent of whether their subscription bases and touring revenue are growing.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: orchestras and ensembles with stable funding, concerts performed. The unseen: the subscription, ticket, touring, and philanthropic revenue that builds a sustainable audience relationship — growth that a standing central grant delays because organisations don't need to develop it.
Ellenvetés
"Orchestras have high fixed costs — musicians' salaries, rehearsal facilities, instruments — that ticket sales alone cannot cover."
Válasz
The five-year horizon is chosen specifically because orchestras' larger fixed costs mean they need the full period to build subscription bases, develop touring relationships, and cultivate sponsorship and philanthropic partnerships capable of sustaining a fixed ensemble. The phase-out is not a sudden cut — it is a schedule that runs alongside those institution-building efforts. What it removes is the standing guarantee that prevents those efforts from having to succeed.
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Indoklás
A direct operating grant to music-arts organisations — orchestras, ensembles, and similar bodies. The analysis matches Cím 2.4.4: discretionary cultural allocation in the subjective-valuation domain, with no price signal to inform the allocator's choice of which organisations to fund and at what level. Phased out over five years on the same mechanism. The larger line size relative to the dance grant reflects the larger fixed costs of orchestral organisations, which makes the reliance interest somewhat heavier and the five-year horizon appropriate rather than shorter — orchestras need the full period to build subscription bases, touring revenue, and sponsorship relationships capable of sustaining a fixed ensemble.
Átállási mechanizmus
Linear five-year reduction to zero. Organisations transition to subscription, ticket, touring, philanthropic, and sponsorship revenue.
Érintett csoportok
Music-arts organisations and musicians; audiences accustomed to subsidised concert programming.
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