Better Late Than Never

It’s been three months since the musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra agreed to a new two-year contract, averting a strike and seemingly marking a truce between the players and their management. But a letter sent by the orchestra’s president to key donors late in the negotiating process has the musicians still fuming over its assertion that they were making “financially unrealistic and institutionally ruinous demands.” The musicians have now sent a letter of their own to many of the original memo’s recipients in an attempt to repair what they view as their wrongfully damaged image.