At 07:31 AM 2/24/00 +1100, 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?*&!.
Bournemouth Sinfonietta. I think that was a chamber group, more or less.
The Bournemouth Symphony is around, as far as I know. They just put out
the second recording of Elgar's Third Symphony on Naxos, in fact.
Roger Hecht