Music Comes First

Canceling concerts in the current symphony season is an outrage, a blatant effort to intimidate the musicians and an insult to the patrons of the symphony. How dare the management assume we, the audience, would rather cut our season short than pay the artists their fair compensation?

What is a symphony, anyway? I’ll tell you what it is not. It is not a building, and it isn’t a management or support staff. It is the music that is played by the artists, for the audience. If anything should be reduced, it should be anything that gets in the way of the music.

Either pay the musicians what they are asking, or cancel my season subscription, and that of my mother.

SUSAN HILDEBRAND

San Diego