I'm sure we're all feeling for the musicians of the Syracuse Symphony, whose season was abruptly cut short last week. Earlier today, I published a profile of one of the laid-off musicians who happens to be an old friend of mine on the Minnesota Orchestra's Inside the Classics blog. The link is below.

Obviously, a blog post won't do much of anything to revive the orchestra, but my hope is that non-musicians reading it might gain a greater understanding of the human cost of an organization like the SSO simply fading away.

http://insidetheclassics.mymin.../making-it-personal/

Problem is, orchestras' issues don't really effect laypersons. They don't care. Orchestras haven't done enough to be relevent in their communities. The human suffering brought on by such a sudden demise of an orchestra can only be appreciated by musicians. Heck, most folks still wonder if musicians get paid. It looks so "fun."
Really, it's a tree falling in the forest.