On 27 May 2007 at 12:00, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote: > John Howell wrote (in response to my listing of some 19th-century > American orchestras:) > > <Not that I disagree with your thesis, which I think is a good one if > perhaps a bit exaggerated, but there certainly should be some > criterion of length of existence before an orchestra can be considered > more established than just a pickup group.> > > And Les says: > > But that was never part of the premise, John!
But it was clearly part of Andrew's premise: > I was responding to > Andrew's statement that there was <There *were* no American symphony > orchestras in the mid-late 19th c.except for the NY Phil and Theodore > Thomas's touring outfit.> That clearly means established standing orchestras, which is pretty obvious from the two examples given. You did not cite any standing orchestras that lasted any length of time to refute his main point. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
