A benefit concert for Haiti will be held this coming Sunday at Carnegie Hall, featuring celebrity pianist, Lang Lang. This article from the New York Times raises some uncomfortable yet important questions about the true benefits of benefit concerts. Who is really benefiting from fundraisers like these? Are we, collectively speaking, too often guilty of doing something just for the sake of doing something?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/music/18benefit.html
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