Another US orchestra faces extinction

Another US orchestra faces extinction

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norman lebrecht

July 05, 2022

The Hudson Valley is one of the more prosperous and picturesque regions of New York state, but its Philharmonic Orchestra has hit the rocks.

Founded in 1932, the orchestra was bankrupted by a fraudster in the 1990s and lost its long-serving music director Randall Craig Fleischer in August 2020.

Now the board says the band is ‘no longer sustainable’.

Read the full, grim story.

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