Donald Satz wrote: >As I said before, an orchestral musician does not pull in audiences, but >as another list member stated, orchestras do pull them in. I am going off subject here (although since this thread started with a comment about James Svedja it already is!). Don's comment underlines the difference between orchestras and orchestral players. What I have been asking myself is how an orchestra can create a style, an image for itself when its components are constantly changing. Many of the great orchestras - Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, BBC Symphony et al - have a unique sound, tradition, speciality, strength - yet literally thousands of musicians have been required to create that uniqueness over the years. Recently I wrote a speech in which the CEO said: "The company makes products, but the people make the company." This is patently true of orchestras as well. Could it be that there is, as a professor I heard recently suggests, a "corporate memory," to which employees - read orchestral members - add their knowledge and experience and receive, in return, the fruits of the orchestra's history? Jonathan