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The news that discount designer handbags, founded in 1900, filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 jolted loose ripples of worry, anguish, anger and lament about the decline of classical music in the United States. One reader, Joseph Swensen, sent in a thoughtful but provocative e-mail. Mr. Swensen is a violinist, conductor and is the founding director of the Utopia Hills Arts Center in Maine. He has served as principal conductor of the Malmo Opera in Sweden and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. This is an edited version of cheap designer handbags.

cheap designer bags is visceral when I hear of a classical music institution like the Philadelphia Orchestra on the brink of collapse. We musicians tirelessly devote ourselves from the time we are small children to honing our skills and deepening our knowledge. All for the sake, so we are taught, of the composers we idolize. There is certainly a good argument for maintaining huge symphony orchestras in every major city (designer handbags wholesale) across the world. They have become symbols not only of Western civilization at its best, but of prosperity and the quality of life in the cities which they serve.

But these huge institutional orchestras are like designer handbags on sale that have over-extended themselves.