Art for Everyone?

I'm the chairperson for the PTA art contest at my son's school. In addition to giving them award "certificates"  I'm trying to solicit our local arts venues for donations for our music students.  Our local arts festivals have been more then generous with donations for passes and whatever is needed to support the fine arts for our young artists.  Music on the other hand has been an adventure.  I called our local concert hall and was greeted with a elitist attitude I've seen satirized in regards to the arts.  It begged the age old question. How do we make the arts for everyone instead of associated as an elitist pursuit for a privileged few?  On a more practical level, it appears to me this elitist attitude bites the hand that feeds them.  Young artists are the future money-makers for their current jobs. It seems smart that art venues would want to encourage the arts in public schools and take a keen interest in what is happening to the arts in the public schools.   A six year old in my Reflections program submitted original music, hand written (with the notes) on plain paper.  I was astounded.  Lets encourage him by recognizing his efforts on a community level.  Will he be one of the lost ones in the forest of academia getting math, science, language, and eventually business, marketing...etc emphasized as the way to "success" and wonder why he feels unfufilled as an adult.  How many stories have I read of artists feeling lost in their lives, then going back in their minds to realize that what they really loved, their passion, was art.  Some catch it in time and can make a living doing what they love, others are lost forever, merely existing, trying to survive at whatever job they can.  I feel like Alice in Wonderland when it comes to watching our local arts community.  I read an article interviewing the new "chair" at a local university who was pondering the question of how to reach the community.  Hello...get involved with your local elementary schools.  Your feeder schools(the local ones who will fill your program) who don't have any money for the arts.  Develop programs to go OUT into the elementary school located across the street.   Universities, the arts venues, symphonies, galleries, museums, REACH OUT!! Get involved in your public schools!!