“Composer Earnings Below Garbage Man” #tbt

File this under the department of “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.

Musicians often hold multiple roles simultaneously inside and outside of music throughout their careers. It was no different in the 1960s. Here, in this article in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record in 1968, composition professor Talivaldis Kenins discussed the difficulties that face composers.

Faculty of Music composition professor Talivaldis Kenins taught at the Faculty of Music from 1952 to 1984. The stamp was issued by the Latvian government in 2012 in honour of him for the 100th anniversary of Latvia in 2018.

Kenins Kitchener-Waterloo Record article 8 March 1968

Kenins Kitchener-Waterloo Record article 8 March 1968