Billy Kitson
>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
Not true......
The report you heard would have referred to The Bournemouth SINFONIETTA,
the chamber group made from the made symphony orchestra. That _has_
folded. However the main Bournemouth SYMPHONY Orchestra is still going as
strong as any orchestra us Britain can go at the moment. There is a new
funding regime about to kick in so things are not as bleak as they have
been. The solution is to go and see them all play.
A new release of the Elgar/Payne Third Symnphony played by them comes out
next week, by the way. Find them at:
http://www.orchestranet.co.uk/bournsym.html
Tony Duggan, England.
My developing Mahler recordings survey:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/