“Siemens AG, which sponsors the Bayreuth and Salzburg music festivals, said it will maintain an annual budget of about 50 million euros ($72 million) for aid, education and arts patronage, even as orders for the company’s products tumble.” The engineering company has slashed thousands of jobs and reduced hours for thousands more workers, but a spokesman said that its “social activities … are not a dispensable quantity in an economically difficult environment.”