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labor issues the orchestra world

un-complementary

I was initially happy to notice this line in a recent New York Times review of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Carnegie Hall:

To a large extent, the power behind these surges comes from the lower string section and the trombones, who in the Bruckner symphony, in particular, seemed to form the ensemble’s backbone.

Then got sad as I realized how meager our lower string section complements are kept due to monetary concerns.