The subsidy consists of the difference between the number on the contract and a living wage. There is also lobbying for individual grants to composers, and for individual projects. Subsidies are being cut now. People think the government went too far. There's a long jazz tradition here.
Jazz schools turn out post-boppers like anywhere else.
The beboppers consider the BIM people as grant-happy politicians who know how to milk the system. Rock musicians also resent them. These people consider the BIM a museum. They consider themselves slighted. Byas had begun to speak English with a Dutch accent.