Not Just Another Orchestra Crisis

There’s a different kind of orchestra crisis going on in Northern Ireland, where the Ulster Youth Orchestra was revealed last week to be in nearly complete disarray. The UK Arts Council stepped in when it was discovered that “bills had not been paid, the phone was disconnected and staff were no longer employed in [the UYO’s] office.” Now, a former vice-chancellor of a major British university has been placed in charge of overhauling the organization, and implementing an emergency plan agreed to by the orchestra and the council.