A report today from Iraq says the Baghdad Philharmonic is still in business, giving concerts, apparently mostly of music with political undertones, such as a composition called "To the UN." The musicians are paid $3 a month - and that's slightly better than in Northern California's largest city, where the San Jose Symphony members get zilch while operations are suspended. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/13/MN152757.DTL Janos Gereben/SF [log in to unmask]