The Gomer van Awsterwyke Society promotes responsibility in early music. It is launching a massive program to alert the public to the tragic results of letting nature take its course among unspayed and unneutered recorders and renaissance reeds. Until public awareness is raised to the point of halting the cruel and senseless proliferation of such instruments, G.A.S. will continue its network of humane shelters and fleet of mobile, high-speed chippers.
G.A.S. maintains a board of ethical and legal experts to explore social and moral pressures to curb the white-collar crimes perpetrated in CD liner notes, concert programs, reviews, and publicity. An active lobby pushes for a "Truth in Promotion" bill for the early music industry.
G.A.S. works with its research partner, The Gomer van Awsterwyke Institute, to bring relief to those whose involvement in early music has brought anguish and suffering to their social lives and private consciences. Self-help groups such as Early Music Anonymous and EMANON are available in many communities. G.A.I. also sponsors research into lobotomy reversal and the remission of autism. Therapies for Aesthetic Avoidance Syndrome and Subtle Temporal Chauvinism are being developed. And a cure for Anthroponesia is finally in sight.
Your Support will be greatly appreciated (but lack thereof understood).
The eponymous Gomer van Awsterwyke was an Elizabethan flautist who started a home for foreign musicians abandoned in England after he heard "Waer mach es zyn di mi dick heeft verhuecht" sung as "Pastyme with good Companye."
For further information (donations accepted), please contact:
Bob Marvin G.A.S./G.A.I.
PO Box 129
Eustis, ME 04936-0129