Eric James wrote (from Robarts Library?):

>Alas, our wonderful Toronto Symphony must resort to all kinds strategies
>to help keep afloat.  Some are self-imposed, like the dumbing-down of their
>programming and presentation; some requirements of the Canada and Ontario
>Arts Councils.  A TSO member recently remarked to me that the orchestra
>rarely plays Haydn and Mozart anymore because Tafelmusik does such a good
>job with this music.  This is a tough situation for a modern symphony
>orchestra:  how to be all things to all people.

Agreed.  But, as an aside, the TSO is compelled to bottom feed, as it were,
for purely monetary reasons.  With all the money in this Town there is no
political or corporate will to properly fund our orchestra.  Toronto, with
all its culture--and arguably there's more of it here than anywhere else in
the world--is still run by a bunch of tight-fisted and closely connected
corporate creeps who haven't got the stuffing to really promote our
orchestra.  We're not really a provincial town anymore; so our corporate
elite should stop sitting on its big corporate butt.

J. G.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/42/john_lewis_grant.html