Orchestra/Classical POV: "view doing your stuff for us as a fundraiser"

No, that's fine for performers, but composers are defined by being paid for their scores. None of you commissioned my orchestral music or my operas. I want to sit in the audience and enjoy it, rather than baring my soul for bigots. - View paying my licencing fees as an investment in publishing my music. John has a publishing imprint. Gareth does too. View paying me licencing fees as recognition that I wrote something which your audience wants to hear. - View the carrot of independent NZSM funding and the dissolution of a full-time NZSO as a way of ring-fencing education while diversifying the local scene and improving quality outside of Wellington. Any suggestion that I must perform will be met with quotations from the Bill of Rights. You've continuously excluded me for refusing to say that I wasn't assaulted. Most trans people know that exclusion is hate speech.