Lack of investment will sound death knell for future of orchestra

Listening, especially listening live, to a symphony orchestra moving through waves of music at full sail is to be borne by sound to another world, writes Gerard Howlin.

To have the experience once is thereafter to have a repertoire of feeling unobtainable from any other sensation. The symphony orchestra is the expression of a unity and cohesion unique in art.

Music of course, at least on that scale, is about money. Thence the publication on Monday by RTÉ of RTÉ Orchestras: Ensuring a sustainable future.