Billy Kitson wrote: >HOW COME here in Australia I only just heard in an aside on Radio the >"BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY" which was built up from provincial nothingness >to almost top class has died over a YEAR ago?*&!. I DO KNOW THAT ALL >THE "BIG" ORCHESTRAS HERE ARE IN PERENIIAL FISCAL STRIFE?*&!. Not the symphony but the excellent Sinfonietta....a bloodcurdling piece of bottom-line driven decision-making. Joel Lazar