In perhaps the poorest European Union country a fantastic Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania is flourishing, and its directorate was granted the exclusive right to squander funds of the indebted Republic of Lithuania from its common treasury.
At the end of 2013, the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania acquired for nearly 0.5 million Litas one of the most expensive, but not the best for this price, Fazioli concert piano.
Vice Minister of Culture for professional art Darius Mažintas acknowledged that the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture supported this investment project.
However, since 2003 to 2014 the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society managed to acquire only one Steinway concert grand piano in 2004, which cost 100 000 Litas less than the Fazioli piano purchased by the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.
The Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society has confirmed that since 2005 to 2016 LNPh had not and will not have any possibility to purchase a new concert grand piano. And LNPh has not received any response for almost a year – since April of 2013 – from the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania regarding a project prepared by the Lithuanian National Philharmonic for purchasing new instruments from EU funds.
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