Carmarthenshire council said after talks schools would directly fund the peripatetic music teaching in the future "according to their (schools) use of the service".
Fund-raising for Frank Gehry's new Disney Concert Hall, also in the centre of town, has not gone anywhere near as smoothly as fund-raising for the Music Centre.
Ms. Bradford, who had a degree in psychology and music, said that she helped the fund get three grants, and took over as the executive director of the fund for a few years.
In 2008, the FEC permitted Elton John to perform for free at a fund-raising event for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign at Radio City Music Hall in New York.