Tony Duggan wrote:

>From THE GUARDIAN, May 28th, 1999
>
> The news that Kent Nagano is stepping down as music director of the
> Halle looked like another blow for the crisis-hit orchestra.  ...
>
> An orchestra with a glorious past may finally be ready to confront
> the future.

I staggered home from the RN in the Far East in '65; and retreated to Rural
Cheshire; Ecstasy was to catch the Cheshire Lines toy train to Manchester
to hear the Halle and whoever play anything and stagger home on the last
toy train!!  It would be an Unqualified Disaster were it to close after "x"
years & "x" triumphs??

Bill(Y).