Andrys note includes:

>She hasn't cancelled, for ages, any regularly scheduled concerts, but
>cancelled the entire tour for January due to regular ongoing (semi-annual,
>I think) precautionary treatments aimed to prevent a recurrence of cancer,
>which she has fought a couple of times.  The concerts were arranged years
>ago and the new experimental treatment which has more or less saved her
>life came after, but they require regular treatment times to make sure
>she remains clear of cancer.

If this treatment is required regularly then this hardly tallies with
the fact that the concerts were announced around October and that her
withdrawal came less than a week prior to the scheduled concert in Sydney
on Jan 24 (and a further performance in Perth some days later).  One feels
that perhaps we have not been made privy to all the facts.

>I'm sorry for those in places like Sydney though, who had
>hoped to hear her. That was really unfortunate timing.

Hopefully Miss Agerich can make up for that disappointment felt by many by
arranging for a visit to Sydney at some future time.

This is the first of two major cancellations.  It has just been announced
that the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra which was scheduled to present
three concerts in Sydney in September as part of the Olympics Arts Festival
has withdrawn because "the orchestra had not been able to secure the level
of sponsorship needed within the United States to underwrite the Sydney
tour."

Gordon Henshaw, (a frustrated [non?] concertgoer)