Actually, the news is not all that bad.  CSSO musicians, with the support
of Music Director Lawrence Leighton Smith, are now reorganizing as the
Colorado Springs Philharmonic.  The article in this morning's Denver
Post:

   http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E24769%257E1242634,00.html?search=filter

(Standard disclaimer about needing to cut-and-paste line-wrapped characters
for long URLs.)

Cheers,

Mike Smith
Boulder, Colorado