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